thoughts on UNIX and older systems

From: Allison J Parent <allisonp_at_world.std.com>
Date: Sun Jan 17 10:12:29 1999

<> > FreeBSD = Cathedral development
<> > Linux = Bazaar development
<> >
<> > Read "The Cathedral and the Bazaar" by Eric Raymond to understand what
<> > mean.

Organized with scheduled releases and maintainers vs ad hoc team with
frequent builds. is this what were talking about?

Also Freebsd is linked to the BSD school of thought VS other more radical
factions. From the playing I've done the differences are insignificant
and either works assuming it supports the hardware. What's more significant
is that linux has Attracted third party vendors producing products that run
in that environment.

<The analogy was only intended to indicate that DOS survived and CP/M
<basically did not.

To a point that is true but CP/M really didn't die. It mutated and DOS
was the result. Also while dos was developing we had MPM, DRdos and CCP/M
to name a few. To date DOS As far as I know does not have the CCPM
multitasking. If there is an analogy CPM supported more different
platforms than DOS.

Allison
Received on Sun Jan 17 1999 - 10:12:29 GMT