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From: Tom Culliton <culliton@clark.net>
To: Uhl@rrz.Uni-Koeln.DE, rc@hawkwind.utcs.toronto.edu
Subject: Re: RC => POSIX
Date: Thu, 6 Mar 1997 11:54:24 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <199703061654.LAA10224@clark.net> (raw)

> From: Malte Uhl <Uhl@rrz.Uni-Koeln.DE>
>
>Agreed, "all the old BSD and SysV systems" would fall behind. But, frankly, I 
>can hardly remember the last computer without Posix and Xopen support. Can 
>you provide any numbers to support your point? I'd be very interested in them!
>
> Malte

How does three of the six systems that I've ported rc to strike you?
There's a lot of old iron out there doing useful work.  Ask Byron, I'm
sure he had a lot of mail from folks with strange incompatibilities.

Tom


             reply	other threads:[~1997-03-06 16:55 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 20+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
1997-03-06 16:54 Tom Culliton [this message]
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
1997-03-29 20:23 Bengt Kleberg
1997-03-27  9:58 Malte Uhl
1997-03-26 11:54 Byron Rakitzis
1997-03-26 16:45 ` Greg A. Woods
1997-03-26  8:33 Bengt Kleberg
1997-03-26 16:38 ` Greg A. Woods
1997-03-25 22:30 Byron Rakitzis
1997-03-24  9:18 Bengt Kleberg
1997-03-24 20:22 ` Greg A. Woods
1997-03-08  0:13 Byron Rakitzis
1997-03-06 17:40 Tom Culliton
1997-03-06 17:15 Alan Watson
1997-03-06 17:54 ` Scott Schwartz
     [not found] <199703061512.KAA21040@explorer2.clark.net>
1997-03-06 16:57 ` Malte Uhl
1997-03-06 15:22 Tom Culliton
1997-03-06 14:09 Bengt Kleberg
1997-03-06 13:46 Tom Culliton
1997-03-06 10:16 Bengt Kleberg
1997-03-07  1:45 ` Greg A. Woods

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