From owner-freebsd-chat Thu May 23 09:48:21 1996 Return-Path: owner-chat Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id JAA28651 for chat-outgoing; Thu, 23 May 1996 09:48:21 -0700 (PDT) Received: from epprod.elsevier.co.uk (epprod.elsevier.co.uk [193.131.222.35]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id JAA28504 for ; Thu, 23 May 1996 09:48:00 -0700 (PDT) Received: from snowdon.elsevier.co.uk (snowdon.elsevier.co.uk [193.131.197.164]) by epprod.elsevier.co.uk (8.6.13/8.6.12) with ESMTP id RAA03402 for ; Thu, 23 May 1996 17:46:55 +0100 Received: from cadair.elsevier.co.uk (actually host cadair) by snowdon with SMTP (PP); Thu, 23 May 1996 17:46:52 +0100 Received: (from dpr@localhost) by cadair.elsevier.co.uk (8.6.12/8.6.12) id RAA21420; Thu, 23 May 1996 17:46:17 +0100 From: Paul Richards Message-Id: <199605231646.RAA21420@cadair.elsevier.co.uk> Subject: Re: editors To: bowden@cs.odu.edu (Jamie Bowden) Date: Thu, 23 May 1996 17:46:16 +0100 (BST) Cc: chat@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: from "Jamie Bowden" at May 23, 96 12:24:33 pm X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL24] Content-Type: text Sender: owner-chat@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk 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