From: udo@umunk.GUN.de (Udo Munk)
Newsgroups: comp.os.coherent
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Subject: Re: Tcl to replacement most of /bin & /usr/bin (was: Tcl on Linux
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Date: Thu, 19 Nov 92 03:04:58 GMT

Rick Kelly (rmk@rmkhome.UUCP) wrote:
: In article <9211165943@umunk.GUN.de> udo@umunk.GUN.de (Udo Munk) writes:
: >Rick Kelly (rmk@rmkhome.UUCP) wrote:
: >: In article <9211150337.AA12188@PCS.CNU.EDU> "Coherent operating system" <COHERENT@indycms.bitnet> writes:
: >[...]
: >: >3) a single user mode that can run without ttys (what for with no other users?)
[...]
: >Every UNIX system has a single user mode, that runs without ttys, for 
: >save administration of the system.
[...]
: This is sort of what I am saying.  I can't understand why anyone would
: want reduced functionality.

I also can't understand that, but fortunateley UNIX is such a powerfull
and flexible OS, that it can be configured to everyone needs.

: >: >4) fast response for games (hey, games sell computers!)
: >: 
: >: Get an Amiga.
: >
: >Why? There are lot of games which are running fine on a PC under DOS.
[...]
: DOS games kick the os out of the way and go right to the hardware.  This
: would probably not be a good strategy with UNIX.
: 
: There are a lot of games for X11.

You are right, that was what I meant. Write or port the games so that
they make use of X11 or MGR or another GUI. Games written for WINDOWS
may be a better choice for a port.

: >Or take a look at MGR.

: It moght be interesting.

It is interesting, I have it here and I'm trying to port it to COHERENT.
It doesn't have such a large overhead for network communication then X11
and it looks like I could be fast on a 386 or 486.

: >: >6) A simplification of administration.  File permissions are a real big
[...]
: >Administration is _not_ a problem of the filesystem. Sit down and write
: >an administration program like SCO's sysadmin shell or like AIX's smit.
: 
: In a followup to him I mentioned this.  Most SVR3.2 and SVR4 systems have
: a sysadmsh like management script and of course kkonfig for kernel
: management.

Yes and it's no problem of writing such programms for COHERENT, only
a lot of work. This could be projects for this group, where several
people works together.

: I usually tell people who want multitasking, and don't want to leave the
: DOS world completely behind to get OS/2.  It seems to work very well.

Sure, one possibility for those who don't want to learn something new,
but has OS/2 a future?

: And the really phobic will be able to buy SVR4.2, which comes up with
: X11 running on the console.  All systems administration functions will
: be menu driven.

There is no need to buy SVR4, if X11 isn't needed today. It's possible
to get X11 running under COHERENT 4.0, it's only a question of time,
because that is really a lot of work.
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