Re: Something Odd - "top" Delivers Nada When Run By Crontab

On 7/15/26 07:18, The Natural Philosopher wrote:
> On 15/07/2026 02:38, c186282 wrote:
>> People COULD know CP/M and DOS
> CP/M perhaps, but even DOS was a miltilayered monster by the time I 
> encounterd it.

   DOS 1 and 2 were kinda capable of being absorbed.
   Really weren't THAT different from CP/M. Of course
   I was much younger then.

   Beyond that ...

   There's a story about M$ ... there was an Old Guy
   there who could hold entire systems in his head -
   thus knowing how tweaking 'X' would affect 'Y'
   and 'Z'. He was there through Win2k ... and then
   retired. From then on, NOBODY really knew how
   everything in the system worked - and it SHOWS :-)

   Linus can MAYBE hold the whole Linux kernel in
   his head ... maybe ... but it's a MUCH bigger
   and more complex kernel that it was when I was
   buying the system on floppies.

   There used to be a Linux magazine with a feature
   by "Zach the Kernel Guy". Each month he'd doc
   how the newly-recruited newbies would want to
   completely re-tweak the kernel - and thus TRASH
   like 90% of all ops/utils/etc in favor of their
   great 'new vision'. Linus would slap 'em down
   hard.

   So, what happens when Linus burns out ???

   Oh well, some of the BSDs are pretty good now ...

   STILL like Win2k ... have it on a VM somewhere.
   Ultra-functional, no BS, no 'candy'.