unix, vanguard
anonymous-remailer at shell.portal.com
anonymous-remailer at shell.portal.com
Sat Jul 15 21:04:29 PDT 1995
>The preeminence of unix in a lot of the work that's being done isn't the
>result of snobbishness or even personal taste. It's just a nice,
>convenient platform to do the work on.
There is a well written essay on the "preeminence of unix" at
http://gnn.com/gnn/bus/ora/features/history/index.html. It
essentially says Unix has survived for so long because universities use
it, and you could license it fairly cheap. Most people (I'm talking
about 90% of computer users, even more in the future) couldn't care
less about features such as tying apps together with shell scripts,
pipes, and some bubble gum.
>But the lack of solid multitasking and freely available development
>tools in ms-windows 3.11 is the reason that more robust crypto tools
>for that platform don't exist.
What are some "robust crypto tools" that are available for unix, and also
aren't available for DOS/Windows?
I kinda think the reason more tools aren't available for PCs (Windows/Mac)
is because there is no appreciable MARKET for such tools yet. If there
were, since PCs have a market share an order of magnitude or two larger
than unix, such tools would have a greater influence anyway.
--
Karl L. Barrus <klbarrus at infocom.net>
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