From owner-freebsd-chat Fri Dec 7 14:35:57 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from po3.glue.umd.edu (po3.glue.umd.edu [128.8.10.123]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8173D37B419 for ; Fri, 7 Dec 2001 14:35:54 -0800 (PST) Received: from y.glue.umd.edu (IDENT:root@y.glue.umd.edu [128.8.10.68]) by po3.glue.umd.edu (8.10.1/8.10.1) with ESMTP id fB7MZju25406; Fri, 7 Dec 2001 17:35:46 -0500 (EST) Received: from y.glue.umd.edu (IDENT:sendmail@localhost [127.0.0.1]) by y.glue.umd.edu (8.9.3/8.9.3) with SMTP id RAA08930; Fri, 7 Dec 2001 17:35:45 -0500 (EST) Received: from localhost (howardjp@localhost) by y.glue.umd.edu (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id RAA08926; Fri, 7 Dec 2001 17:35:42 -0500 (EST) X-Authentication-Warning: y.glue.umd.edu: howardjp owned process doing -bs Date: Fri, 7 Dec 2001 17:35:42 -0500 (EST) From: James Howard To: Anthony Atkielski Cc: Konstantinos Konstantinidis , chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: A breath of fresh air.. In-Reply-To: <005001c17f6c$e60c0ef0$0a00000a@atkielski.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Fri, 7 Dec 2001, Anthony Atkielski wrote: > Real-time process control, timesharing, dedicated batch, and dedicated > desktop? I don't think so. I've never seen an OS that can do all that > efficiently, and there's nothing magic about UNIX. Actually, there is something magic about Unix. Unix, on its own, is so primitive, and any system can be built on top of it. I am now to the point where I use exclusively MacOS X on my laptop instead of the Windows PC on my desk at work. MacOS X really is Unix, but it has a bautiful interface and brilliantly designed windowing system on top of it. Not your style? I have a FreeBSD firewall sitting in the closet here. Or a satellite communications gateway running Linux in the next cube over. Want to build a real-time system? Start with Unix. Want to build a batch processing system? Start with Unix. Want a compute server to handle MATLAB for 120 people at a shot? Start with Unix. Unix is magical in a very important way. There is no magic. As a result, you are not forced into using your computer in ANY particular way and can use it in the way that best suits your needs. Jamie To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message