I'm gonn'a miss my shift lock key too.  It used to be my friend...now that
I'm trying this POSIX stuff, we no longer get along.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Wirt Atmar [SMTP:[log in to unmask]]
> Sent: Friday, November 16, 2001 12:46 PM
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> Subject:      Re: POSIX
>
> Jeff Vance writes:
>
> > But, as has already been posted, on UNIX systems there is no
> >  TEMP domain where the file automatically goes away after you
> >  logoff.
>
> Which is only one of a thousand niceties that I'm going to sorely miss.
>
> If anyone asks why I'm so attached to MPE -- it's just another operating
> system, isn't it? -- this is certainly one of them. That and the simple,
> English-like commands -- and the reliability, and robustness, and the
> forgiveness of the thing.
>
> It's possible to take MPE apart, piece-by-piece, and say that there's
> really
> nothing special about it, just as they did with Einstein's brain. But it's
> the whole that counts.
>
> Wirt Atmar
>
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