Date: Mon, 21 Apr 1997 13:45:45 -0700 (PDT) From: "Jonathan M. Bresler" <jmb> To: kelly@fsl.noaa.gov (Sean Kelly) Cc: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de, freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Unix-haters Message-ID: <199704212045.NAA12992@freefall.freebsd.org> In-Reply-To: <335BC370.41C67EA6@fsl.noaa.gov> from "Sean Kelly" at Apr 21, 97 01:43:44 pm
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Sean Kelly wrote: > > Jonathan M. Bresler wrote: > > <yaaaaaaawn> > > Mr Bresler might be commenting on the unusually dry tone in my message, > but if it's on the topic of Unix Haters, I encourage you not to take his > tired reaction to heart. > > 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. critism from those that use or have used unix enough to understand is valid. sinson grafinkel for instance (one of teh authors. at least his name is on the cover of my copy.) but being hosted at microsoft.com does not impress me. seems raterh transparent. but i may be mistaken just look at my spelling ;) jmb
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