CompuServe Messages

Unfortunatly, claims aside, your facts are plain wrong, Ben. Coopers and Lybrand, Exxon Data services, many airlines and air freight companies, all the telephone companies, most banks I know of, department store chains, etc. run Unix. I believe if you had number of installations they would be smaller thatn DOS, but number of users would be greater do to the multi-user and heavey netowrking found in the Unix world. Also your contentions about government programming are totally false. As No commercial venture aside from IBM could take over 2000 software engineers spread across the country, produce 5 million lines of code, integrate it and launch space shuttles with such high reliability. Very few mission delays/scrubs/snaffus are software in nature. Also government software (much of it developed on Unix, BTW) also seemed to hit the mark – excuse the pun – during Desert Storm. Note: this is not an endorsement of such behavior. Yes, the software is ultimatley developed by private corporations, but to government standards, by government procedures. You should really check out your facts before you make such Archie Bunker-ish statments. Disclaimer: I am not a Unix booster (or even fan). I have made a living for 12 years largely on engineering large real-time systems for government programs. My best freind has made a living for thee past 12 years in the commercial sector exclusively as a Unix system programmer and designer. I know whereof I speak. wmc