Date: Thu, 23 May 1996 12:24:33 -0400 (EDT) From: Jamie Bowden <bowden@cs.odu.edu> To: Paul Richards <p.richards@elsevier.co.uk> Cc: Michael Smith <msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au>, nawaz921@cs.uidaho.edu, chuckr@glue.umd.edu, freebsd-chat@freefall.freebsd.org Subject: Re: editors Message-ID: <Pine.3.91.960523121622.8014B-100000@fog.cs.odu.edu> In-Reply-To: <199605231313.OAA23966@cadair.elsevier.co.uk>
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On Thu, 23 May 1996, Paul Richards wrote: > issue). I don't understand this burning desire by some people to make > Unix accessible to absolutely anyone. It is not a newbie friendly OS > because it *IS* for hackers and developers, if you start down the road > of trying to change that you'll end up with NT :-) There's nothing > worse than an unix advocate who thinks it's the greatest OS there is and > everyone should use it. It's not, it's very good for particular tasks, > Windows is the better option for a lot of others. I think you're wrong here. NT is convoluted and painfull. It's as bad as UNIX in some ways. However, it will be microsloth's only os in about three years. I think we use what we're comfortable with. If we had all started on UNIX, DOS/Windows would be unknown territory, and the 'clueless' user wouldn't go near it. I think we should all have been weened on UNIX anyway. Jamie I have my finger on the pulse of the planet.
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