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To: JC Jaros who wrote (28556)	3/5/2000 4:18:00 AM
From: trion12	of 64865

As an ex-Sun employee and longtime UNIX user I agree that there are lots of things that UNIX is not good for. (Like anything requiring fine grained deterministic response, say a nuclear power station . . . (For that matter no "commercial" OS is very good at that). What UNIX does have going for it is a thorough flexible design that was way head of its time and has stood the test of time. You are also right that the Internet was built on UNIX systems (because of their early adoption of TCP/IP). When NT first came out 8 or 9 years ago I thought to myself that there was really nothing too new here at the core. In many ways it was copying what UNIX had done for years.

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