SJ: PSR SUPPORT ON NOS AND NOS/BE
Please stop submitting PSR's. This is our system, we designed it, we built
it, and we use it more than you do. If there are some features you think
might be missing, if the system isn't as effective as you think it could be,
TOUGH! Give it back, we don't need you. See
Figure 1.
Forget about your silly problem. Let's take a look at some of the features
of our operating system.
- Options. We've got lots of them. So many in fact, that you need
two strong people to carry the documentation around.
So many that it will be a cold day in hell before half of them are used.
So many that you are probably not going to be able to get your work done
right anyway.
However, the number of options isn't all that important, because we picked
some interesting values for the options and called them...
- Defaults. We put a lot of thought into our defaults. We like
them. If we didn't, we would have made something else the default. So keep
your hands off our defaults. Don't touch. Consider them mandatory.
"Mandatory default" has a nice ring to it. If you change them and your
system crashes, tough. See
Figure 1.
- Language Processors. They work just fine. They take in source
code, and often produce object code as a reward for your efforts.
You can even make operating system calls from them. For any that you can't,
use the assembler like we do. You don't like the code? Too bad! We spoke to
the compiler developers about this, and they think a lot like we do. They
said "See
Figure 1".
- Debuggers. We've got debuggers; one we support and one we use.
You shouldn't make mistakes anyhow, it is a waste of time, and we don't want
to hear anything about debuggers, we're not interested. See
Figure 1.
- Error Logging. Ignore it, why give yourself an ulcer? You don't
want to give us the machine to get the problem fixed, and we probably can't
do it anyway.
- Command Language. We designed it ourselves, it's perfect. In fact
we're so happy with it, we designed it once for each of our operating
systems. We even try to keep it the same from release to release, but
sometimes we blow it, we can't be perfect. See
Figure 1.
- Real Time Performance. We got it. Who else could have done such a
good job? So the system seems a bit sluggish with all those priority 70
tasks? No problem, just make them all priority 1. Anyway, realtime isn't
important like it used to be, we changed our group's name to get rid of the
word realtime, and we told all our realtime users to see
Figure 1
a long time ago.
In conclusion, stuff your PSR. Love our system or leave it, but don't
complain!