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Xref: sserve comp.org.usenix:3275 comp.unix.bsd:11584 comp.org.sug:659 comp.os.386bsd.misc:58 Newsgroups: comp.org.usenix,comp.unix.bsd,comp.org.sug,comp.os.386bsd.misc Path: sserve!manuel.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!news.Hawaii.Edu!ames!saimiri.primate.wisc.edu!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!menudo.uh.edu!uuneo!sugar!peter From: peter@NeoSoft.com (Peter da Silva) Subject: Re: How to vote on POSIX Printing Organization: NeoSoft Communications Services -- (713) 684-5900 Date: Tue, 2 Mar 1993 01:59:16 GMT Message-ID: <C38o6u.7tt@sugar.neosoft.com> References: <C36JrI.E8K@ra.nrl.navy.mil> <C37Kwn.Hx5@sugar.neosoft.com> <DUKE.93Mar1134042@portal.osf.org> Lines: 38 In article <DUKE.93Mar1134042@portal.osf.org> duke@osf.org (Duke Robillard) writes: > In article <C37Kwn.Hx5@sugar.neosoft.com> peter@NeoSoft.com (Peter da Silva) writes: > Actually, Palladium (based on the papers I FTP-ed on the subject) appears > to be a derived at least in the design from Berkeley "lpr". > I don't believe that's really true. It's a client-server system, so > it has that in common with lpr, but it was all re-done from scratch. It was redone to a spec, and that spec was clearly based on the facilities provided by lpr. > and only slightly improves its extensibility in the area of file formats > and conversions. > Well, not really. There is tremendously more flexibility in Palladium > than in lpr. A bit more, not that much. It's got a lot better control, but you can't (for example) use it to batch compiles and ship the resulting code back, without a lot of work. > It's much, much bigger. Well, that's true, but largely irrelevant. Size by itself has a negative value. > It seems mainly of interest to very large networks that are > more-or-less homogenous. > If by "homogenous" you mean "POSIX-compliant" then I agree. No, by "homogenous" I mean something like Athena, with at most a few versions of the same operating system. -- Peter da Silva. <peter@sugar.neosoft.com>. `-_-' Oletko halannut suttasi tänään? 'U` Tarjoilija, tämä ateria elää vielä.