On 1 Oct 2002 at 13:35, [log in to unmask] wrote:

> In complete disagreement with Mark's assessment, I would back all of
> the POSIX stuff out of MPE. POSIX really is not much more than a poor
> imitation of UNIX. Given that Linux is freely available, it doesn't
> even belong on MPE. It is nothing other than an unnecessary and
> generally unuseful complexification of MPE.

More water under the bridge. Without it, MPE would've died in the mid
90's. As far as pulling it out - it is too tightly integrated with
the kernel today as to make that darn near impossible.

> But that market exists only if MPE is simplified and
> made even more understandable to the average human than it is now.

Well, I suppose there's still MPE/V.

> Indeed, I
> suspect that it would become the dominant operating system for every
> small and medium commercial use other than web servers and embedded
> systems.

How would you propose going head to head with Windows, because that's
the market you're describing?
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Mark Klein
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