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- From: charles stoyer <cstoyer@interpex.com>
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- Subject: Re: Why are 32 bit better than 16 bit pgms?
- Date: 26 Jan 1996 05:09:40 GMT
- Organization: Interpex limited
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- They are better for the reasons mentioned. But the resistance
- to Unix is because it was developed by two guys working in a
- room in the basement with no windows. In DEC PDP or VAX VMS,
- you typed a file by saying "type". OK, I could live with
- "list". But "cat"? Give me a break. Maybe DOS doesn't give you
- enough room to swing a cat but it doesn't make you type "cat"
- to type (list) a file or "ls" to get a file directory. Unix is
- for computer geeks of the most serious types and not for people
- who use computers as tools to make a living and can't aford
- tens of thousands of dollars (or marks or shillings or pounds
- or millions of lire) and months of steep learning curves.
-
- Windows was not too bad, but windows 95 seems to work. Bill
- Gates maybe finally got it right! I don't think Unix machines
- compete with cars for consumer dollars, but PC's, running Win
- 95, do.
-
- just one person's opinion.
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