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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.cs.su.oz.au!metro!metro!munnari.OZ.AU!news.hawaii.edu!ames!usenet.kornet.nm.kr!usenet.etri.re.kr!news.kreonet.re.kr!usenet.seri.re.kr!news.cais.net!news.mathworks.com!hunter.premier.net!insync!uuneo.neosoft.com!web.nmti.com!peter From: peter@nmti.com (Peter da Silva) Newsgroups: comp.unix.misc,comp.unix.bsd.misc Subject: Re: How to delete files within C programs Date: 8 May 1996 19:01:16 GMT Organization: Network/development platform support, NMTI Lines: 25 Message-ID: <4mqr1s$5ou@web.nmti.com> References: <Oum-El-Kheir.Benkahla-3004961724540001@mac-ugm-3.imag.fr> <4mpo0f$57r@innocence.interface-business.de> <4mq4o3$qkh@news.rhrz.uni-bonn.de> NNTP-Posting-Host: sonic.nmti.com Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.misc:22529 comp.unix.bsd.misc:945 In article <4mq4o3$qkh@news.rhrz.uni-bonn.de>, Henry G. Juengst <juengst@saph1.physik.uni-bonn.de> wrote: > Nice to see that you compare unix with MSDOS. Please, more! :-))) OK, let's compare it with VMS, which is several years younger than UNIX, and so tied into specific details of the VAX memory management model that to run it on an Alpha they have to drop to 32-bit mode... and the Alpha was designed with running VMS as one of its goals! I undertand they're finally getting VMS to 64 bits. Reminds me of how long it took RSX-11 to make use of the split I&D model on the PDP-11, after UNIX had been using it for years. All other things being equal, a simple high-level O/S design is inherently more flexible. UNIX runs on pure 16 bit systems (64K code space, what people call "8 bit" systems today) all the way up to the latest 64-bit monsters. What else can you claim that of? -- Peter da Silva (NIC: PJD2) `-_-' 1601 Industrial Boulevard Bailey Network Management 'U` Sugar Land, TX 77487-5013 +1 713 274 5180 "Har du kramat din varg idag?" USA Bailey pays for my technical expertise. My opinions probably scare them