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? -- Mark Klein http://www.dis.com PGP Key Available