On Tue, Feb 11, 2003 at 03:33:30AM +0330, Aryan Ameri wrote:
> On Tuesday 11 February 2003 00:16, René Seindal wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > I just happened to stumble over this, which is a rather amusing list of
> > other uses of the name Unix.
> >
> > It is a part of Dennis Ritchie's personal homepage.
>
> I was reading an interview with him somewhere on the net (a Unix site I
> think), and in it, he said that he uses Windows NT on his home box for most
> of his work, like excel and world proccessing and WWW browsing.
>
> The interviewer also asked his opinion on Linux, {free,open,net}BSD, and the
> GNU project in general, and he said that these are nice, but I see no
> innovation in these things, they are just copying stuff that we invented
> years before. At this point, I couldn't resist notocing the similarities
> between his, and Steve Ballmer's statements.
>
> I mean, it is pretty boring, the guy co-designed Unix, and is now using NT for
> the bulk of his work.
It sounded to me like he used NT as a glorified X terminal, and for the
occasional spreadsheet or word document or whatever. All his 'real'
work was on the Plan9 machine.
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Rob Weir <rweir@ertius.org> http://ertius.org/
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