[2276] in testers
Re: sun4 7.6F: $bindir and @sys on solaris
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (John Carr)
Thu Jul 29 14:56:53 1993
To: Derek Atkins <warlord@MIT.EDU>
Cc: sparc@MIT.EDU, testers@MIT.EDU, bug-sparc@MIT.EDU
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Thu, 29 Jul 1993 14:49:03 EDT."
Date: Thu, 29 Jul 1993 14:56:32 EDT
From: John Carr <jfc@Athena.MIT.EDU>
> Thank you, John. You just proved my point.
And you just hit on one of the things that really annoys me about the
net: people using the word "prove" inappropriately. I proved nothing
for or against my point. I offered an argument. This isn't a matter
of fact that can be proved.
You missed the point of X10, or more likely I assumed that people were
more aware of the history. The intent of MIT was to kill X10 dead,
fast. Failure to do so was considered a mistake because development
effort got divided among two incompatible systems, with improvements
to one not affecting the other.
xswitch was a mess, and was de facto unsupported long before it was
removed from the release or even officially desupported. But it still
took time that could have been better spent elsewhere, and for a while
was responsible for a major security hole.
You might as well complain that "decmipsbin" is used for Ultrix 3 and
Ultrix 4 binaries, which are about as incompatible as SunOS and
Solaris binaries. We survived that switch.
