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Aucbvax.4700 fa.unix-wizards utzoo!decvax!ucbvax!unix-wizards Tue Oct 27 15:16:46 1981 Quote without comment >From allegra!bill@Berkeley Tue Oct 27 11:10:44 1981

>From Data Communications magazine, October '81, Unix: An operating system that means business. A quote from Fred Jenkins, president of the IBM virtual memory (VM) operating-systems users group. Indented text is direct from the article.

As a worst case, Jenkins compares VM's command EDIT, meaning to edit a file, with Unix's command NROFF for the same function. "It just makes the system more difficult to use," he says.

For similar gems see the article.

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