Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2001/02/16
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Martin, I'm a Unix bigot, er professional. It's how I've made my living for the past two decades. I'll take us a bit further off-topic. What the hey - it's better than conspiracy theory and WW II. Yes, Unix is stable. Where I work we usually reboot Unix servers which have been up for six months in the same spirit that they used to administer sulpher-and-molasses in the spring time. Probably good for you. Your post brought a thought to mind. Windoz and Mac OS were designed to be commercial products, very much with the thought of making money in mind. And, to be fair, they have. A lot of it. Unix folk just started out to make an operating system. Think about the time and effort which has been devoted to developing Unix. Bell Labs in the early days, the work done at Berkley, the work of the Athena project which lead to X-windows ( which is a far superior windowing system, IMHO :-) ) the work of the GNU project, SGI, Sun Microsystems, Hewlett-Packard, and the guys who build the Linux kernel, just to name a few. Says a lot about open standards, I think. No single company could possible afford to sink that much time and money into development, and it shows in their products. Barney Quinn Martin Howard wrote: > Johnny Deadman wrote, in part: > > > Nothing very amazing about it really. UNIX is a protected environment where > > a crash in one thread can't affect anything else eg overwrite some other > > app's memory. If Windows or Mac OS were built like that they'd be as stable. > > That's the amazing part: that they aren't. > > M. > > -- > Martin Howard | Super Cali goes ballistic, Celtics are > Visiting Scholar, CSEL, OSU | atrocious. > email: howard.390@osu.edu | -- British sports headline. > www: http://mvhoward.i.am/ +-------------------------------------------