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From: Jan A Knepper <Jan@jak.nl>
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Victor A. Sudakov wrote:

> I have a friend sysadmin who is familiar both with UNIX and NT and he
> says
> that NT is easy to use only until you do not have to do anything
> advanced.

Well, here an other one. Besides UNIX and NT, also, MS-DOS (still),
OS/2, Novell NetWare.

> If you have to do something more complicated you need a lot of
> NT-specific
> training and special competence.

True. Especially the competence part. Often I need more 'competence' to
get things going for NT than FreeBSD for instance. Especially if it is
something specific. Then there are still things that just don't work.
Even though vendors say it should...

> Perhaps, NT is really an excellent platform for a secretary to run MS
> Office though.

Certainly!

Don't worry, be Kneppie!
Jan