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- From: fr@compu.com (Fred Rump from home)
- Newsgroups: comp.unix.sysv386
- Subject: Re: Dell Unix..
- Message-ID: <1992Jul22.174516.22924@compu.com>
- Date: 22 Jul 92 17:45:16 GMT
- References: <1992Jul17.214224.5589@dellunix.dell.com> <Brov7I.8tF@ef2007.efhd.ford.com> <9207201801.05@rmkhome.UUCP>
- Organization: CompuData Inc.
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- rmk@rmkhome.UUCP (Rick Kelly) writes:
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- >Sure, you can buy a less polished version of SVR4, and spend your time at
- >church keeping it running.
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- Whatever V4 has to do with running a UNIX system at a church escapes my sense
- of logic. We have over 200 such systems running in churches without any
- sysadmins or general computer knowledge etc - just your ordinary
- volunteer/secretary/housewife/minister/priest type of user who wouldn't know
- an operating system from a prompt as they never see either.
-
- They all run on that nasty SCO environment which we've all heard so much about
- here in past times (it's Dell's turn today).
-
- And by the way, these non-computer types read news (our own cdi.* groups),
- write and read email, and generally feel at home with their systems as if they
- were designed for churches - which they were, of course. It makes for all the
- difference in the world to let a vertical VAR handle all that computer stuff
- and let users be users and do their church thing. We've spent around 20
- man/years at the back end so that life would be easy at the front end.
-
- Personally, I've never believed in teaching users about computers and
- operating systems - confuses the hell out of them. It's tough enough
- remembering all the things you can do with the application. :-)
-
-
- Fred
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