Date: Thu, 16 Mar 1995 15:06:00 -0700 From: Nate Williams <nate@trout.sri.MT.net> To: "Rodney W. Grimes" <rgrimes@gndrsh.aac.dev.com> Cc: FreeBSD-current@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: ps and grep Message-ID: <199503162206.PAA01828@trout.sri.MT.net> In-Reply-To: "Rodney W. Grimes" <rgrimes@gndrsh.aac.dev.com> "Re: ps and grep" (Mar 16, 1:38pm)
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[ Just popping in to throw a bit of trivia into the arguement ] > Humm.. I agree that it is popular ``because it adapts to requirements'', > but the reason it adopts is because the source code is out there being > wacked on by 1000's instead of 10's or 100's as in something like VMS. > > I guess I'm a weenie then, but when it comes to 50GB transactional > data bases running paperless wafer fabrication facilities with 24 x 7 > uptime requirements you could't have paid me to even think about doing > it on unix, for that matter I would still do it on VMS today. Unless that OS happened to be QNX, which is used by a *very* prominent memory wafer fabrication plant in the U.S. who reamins unnamed but has a great development environment but rotten hours. (Plan on being awakened at *all* hours when the machines quit because of a bug you introduced that only occurs on the third friday of the month when the moon is full) Nate
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