Date: Thu, 23 May 1996 17:46:16 +0100 (BST) From: Paul Richards <p.richards@elsevier.co.uk> To: bowden@cs.odu.edu (Jamie Bowden) Cc: chat@freebsd.org Subject: Re: editors Message-ID: <199605231646.RAA21420@cadair.elsevier.co.uk> In-Reply-To: <Pine.3.91.960523121622.8014B-100000@fog.cs.odu.edu> from "Jamie Bowden" at May 23, 96 12:24:33 pm
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In reply to Jamie Bowden who said > > 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 I doubt that very much, I wasn't talking about NT I was talking about Windows and I think that'll be with us for a very long time. Hell, 5 years ago my father wouldn't go near a computer, he raves about his Win95 box all the time now! When I took my unix box home at christmas he wondered what the hell it was, it depends what you need to do, unix is not for everyone. Windows really is a switch it on and use it system in the main which is why non-computer literate folks find it accessible. NT is not Windows, it's a "real" OS and the admin overhead that goes with a real OS is embodied in it. > 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. I was weened on Unix but I'm not *that* old, still only 28, windows didn't even exist at the time :-) Well actually, I was weened on rather more basic systems, like the old Commodore PET and UK folks will remember the old BBC computer but Unix was my first real OS. -- Paul Richards. Originative Solutions Ltd. (Netcraft Ltd. contractor) Elsevier Science TIS online journal project. Email: p.richards@elsevier.co.uk Phone: 0370 462071 (Mobile), +44 (0)1865 843155
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