> SAGE-----
>
>On Fri, 5 Dec 1997, Matthew Jacob wrote:
>
>> >In my best Andy Sipowitz voice: "Anyone dat mentions da NT registry as
>> >a solution for anyting, dat's gonna get yew smacked."
>> 
>> Oh, friggin grow up.... It's just persistent storage of device properties.
>
>Any configuration mechanism that cannot be repaired in ed(1) is sick
>and wrong...
>
>Realistically, AIX has just such a mechanism, and it's every bit as much
>a PITA when it gets corrupted.  Ditto for NeXTStep...
>

Agreed. But I don't hear as much complaining about NVRAM settings for,
e.g., a SparcStation. Try ed on that.