Re: Humorous NT Conference for Unix bigots (fwd)

["Ing. Roberto Andrade" <randrade en campus iztacala unam mx>]

Hola:

Una anécdota sobre NT y el korn shell, de la lista de DBI.

                       Roberto Andrade Fonseca

---------- Forwarded message ----------
>         Korny sentiments
> 
>         I'd bet the Microsoft product manager at the recent Large
>         Installation Systems Administration for NT show, in Seattle,
>         wishes he had had a hypnotist at his disposal to keep the
>         audience quiet.
> 
>         He was discussing a forthcoming product that aims to
>         deliver Unix-style scripting and shell services to NT. The
>         product includes the Mortise Kern Systems windowing Korn
>         shell, and he got into a dispute with someone at the back of
>         the room who claimed that the shell wasn't very compatible
>         with Unix, and that it didn't do a lot of things correctly that
>         are defined in the Korn shell language spec.
> 
>         The two kept going back and forth until the Microsoft
>         product manager was told by someone else that he was, in
>         fact, arguing with David Korn -- the author of the Korn
>         shell. The crowd went insane with laughter.

To be fair, it should be pointed out that much, if not all, of what the
MKS shell does that differs from the Korn shell language spec, is
done that way to match the POSIX shell spec.

Standards eh!

Tim.


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