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From: dagbrown@undergrad.math.uwaterloo.ca (Dave Brown)
Subject: Re: Retro-Computing!
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Date: Sat, 8 Apr 1995 11:26:06 GMT
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In article <Pine.NXT.3.92.950407155823.5627A-100000@tomobiki-cho.cac.washington.edu>,
Mark Crispin  <mrc@CAC.Washington.EDU> wrote:
>The original troll posted his "retro-computing" message to newsgroups such
>as alt.sys.pdp10, not to comp.sys.unix.  He was attacking, among others,
>PDP-10 operating systems such as TOPS-20, and implying that UNIX was the
>greatest thing since sliced bread. 

Actually, it seemed more like he was attacking the general brokenness
of Unix compared to the nice features of TOPS-20--except he was doing
it using satire which is, of course, lost on most people.  Shame that.

[fairly good list of reasons why Unix sucks deleted]

--Dave (What am I doing saying `he' anyways?  I have no idea of the
        poster's gender!)
-- 
http://armf18.dow.on.doe.ca:6700/~dbrown/  Dave Brown, sysadmin for
Environment Canada.  I charge for any unsolicited advertising that
appears in any system I administer, at the rate of $200/hr for my
time in dealing with the ad (min. 1/2 hr) and $100/kB for storage.
