From owner-freebsd-chat Thu May 23 09:27:54 1996 Return-Path: owner-chat Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id JAA26154 for chat-outgoing; Thu, 23 May 1996 09:27:54 -0700 (PDT) Received: from yucca.cs.odu.edu (root@yucca.cs.odu.edu [128.82.4.6]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with ESMTP id JAA26145 for ; Thu, 23 May 1996 09:27:51 -0700 (PDT) Received: from fog.cs.odu.edu (bowden@fog.cs.odu.edu [128.82.4.35]) by yucca.cs.odu.edu (8.7.3/8.6.4) with SMTP id MAA21885; Thu, 23 May 1996 12:22:56 -0400 (EDT) Date: Thu, 23 May 1996 12:24:33 -0400 (EDT) From: Jamie Bowden To: Paul Richards cc: Michael Smith , nawaz921@cs.uidaho.edu, chuckr@glue.umd.edu, freebsd-chat@freefall.freebsd.org Subject: Re: editors In-Reply-To: <199605231313.OAA23966@cadair.elsevier.co.uk> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-chat@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk 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.