But BSD was written by students :) True that Unix
has some hiccups but it has come a long way. As the
saying goes,
don't like it, change it ;) 

John


--- William Chops Westfield <westfw@mac.com> wrote:

> On Jan 11, 2006, at 10:05 PM, kravnus wolf wrote:
> 
> > What was wrong with Unix in the past?  Why a "bad"
> guy?
> 
> I really don't want to get into that here.  The
> nay-sayers are
> all gone, and unix has survived.  For the purpose of
> this
> conversation, you can start with the fact that unix
> systems
> decided that they were routers by default, but the
> code authors
> hadn't read the RFCs carefully enough to get the
> broadcast address
> right (or didn't care.)  It also foisted atrocities
> like a
> "privileged" TCP port range, intensely insecure
> protocols like
> rlogin, and a full set of chatty broadcast protocols
> of dubious
> merit (rwhod, etc) (which tickled the broadcast
> forwarding bugs
> very nicely, of course...)  And then there's "grep."
> 
> BillW
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