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 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>                             http://ertius.org/

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