Re: Aranym installation, was Re: Centris 650 Debian 10 SID Installation

[Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@linux-m68k.org>]

Hi Andreas,

On Fri, Jun 21, 2019 at 7:16 PM Andreas Schwab <schwab@linux-m68k.org> wrote:
> On Jun 21 2019, Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@linux-m68k.org> wrote:
> > On Fri, Jun 21, 2019 at 3:39 PM John Paul Adrian Glaubitz
> > <glaubitz@physik.fu-berlin.de> wrote:
> >> On 6/21/19 3:36 PM, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote:
> >> > Forking hundreds of shell instances for doing simple things like string
> >> > substitution isn't efficient. It's a brain-dead design. Anyone who thinks
> >> > that sysvinit is the original Unix design has never used an original
> >> > Unix. sysvinit has always been a hack.
> >>
> >> And, FWIW, I recommend reading the "Unix Hater's Handbook" [1] for anyone
> >> who is still convinced the "old traditional Unix way" (TM) is the way to
> >> go. It isn't. Original Unix sucks. I have used HP-UX, OSF/1 and old versions
> >> of Solaris and they are all horrible to use.
> >
> > Those all postdate SunOS4.1.3 ;-)
>
> Did you mean SunOS4.1.1?  4.1.3 didn't support Sun-3 any more.

I did mean the pre-Solaris version that ran on SPARC.

But 4.1.1 was fine, too, I guess ;-)

Gr{oetje,eeting}s,

                        Geert

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