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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: 9 May 1996 22:27:55 GMT
Organization: Network/development platform support, NMTI
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In article <4mtd96$75q@news.rhrz.uni-bonn.de>,
Henry G. Juengst <juengst@saph1.physik.uni-bonn.de> wrote:
> In article <4mt4j6$b32@web.nmti.com>, peter@nmti.com (Peter da Silva) writes:
> >In article <4msovu$aep@innocence.interface-business.de>,
> >J Wunsch <joerg_wunsch@interface-business.de> wrote:
> >> juengst@saph1.physik.uni-bonn.de (Henry G. Juengst) wrote:
> >> > Unix magazines are full of "64 bit unix" advertisements now.

> >I haven't got Henry's posting here yet, but I'll just note that UNIX has
> >been running on long word length machines like Crays for many years.

> It is stupid to talk about an article which was not quoted correct
> (complete). You do not know what you are talking about. The most
> important point seems to be that you talk.

[whereupon Henry proceeds to completely ignore my factual response that
 64-bit UNIX is not a new thing, as he was implying, demonstrating exactly
 the flaw that he accuses me of... and in addition provides absolutely
 no information of his own, which at least I did...

 Pot. Kettle. Black. You know the routine. Here's the meat:]

> >Why are there suddenly a bunch of ads? Because there's suddenly market
> >demand for these sorts of systems at the low end. There wasn't before.

> >Where did this demand come from? I'd say, the availability of cheap
> >(relatively) and reliable 9GB SCSI drives, and the joint Oracle and
> >Digital Equipment anouncement of their high-peformance large-address
> >space database servers.
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