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From: Brian T.Schellenberger <bts@babbleon.org>
To: Juha Saarinen <juha@saarinen.org>
Subject: Re: Junior Annoying Hacker Task
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On Saturday 02 February 2002 03:57 pm, Juha Saarinen wrote:
> On Sat, 2 Feb 2002, Brian T.Schellenberger wrote:
> >  No, it's not, because it still maintains a separation between "system"
> >  control (rc.conf) and application control (/var/packges).
> >
> >  It's more like config.sys or something . . .
>
> Much more than that. The registry also stores dynamic data, such as
> performance counters. It's also "remotable", for centralised management.

No, no, I was saying that *rc.conf* was more like config.sys than the 
registry.

The registry is a huge monolithic monstor of an abomination from hell.

Not that I don't like it or anything :-)

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