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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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