Date: Mon, 21 Apr 1997 21:56:53 +0200 From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch) To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Unix-haters Message-ID: <19970421215653.KJ25438@uriah.heep.sax.de> In-Reply-To: <335BC370.41C67EA6@fsl.noaa.gov>; from Sean Kelly on Apr 21, 1997 13:43:44 -0600 References: <199704211840.LAA05922@freefall.freebsd.org> <335BC370.41C67EA6@fsl.noaa.gov>
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As Sean Kelly wrote: > Jonathan M. Bresler wrote: > > <yaaaaaaawn> > > Mr Bresler might be commenting on the unusually dry tone in my message, I rather thought this `comment' was related to the mickeysoft address. > I recommend _The Unix Haters Handbook_ (IDG Books 1994, ISBN > 1-56884-203-1) by Garfinkel et al. to even the most ardent Unix > aficionados. It's a great read, and filled with humor. But it also has > hundreds of valid points of where Unix is screwed up. If anything, it > serves as a specification of what to fix in future versions, or what not > to do if you happen to be writing a new OS from scratch. That was exactly my point of interest in their mailing list. -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)
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