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- From: rhodesia@wixer.cactus.org (Felix S. Gallo)
- Subject: Re: Giles' Manual Mania (Was - Re: About the 'F' in RTFM)
- Message-ID: <1992Sep2.220549.25101@wixer.cactus.org>
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- Sender: rhodesia@wixer.cactus.org (Felix S. Gallo)
- Organization: Real/Time Communications
- References: <1992Aug27.003746.8092@newshost.lanl.gov> <1992Sep1.185546.15682@mksol.dseg.ti.com> <1992Sep1.233050.7075@newshost.lanl.gov>
- Date: Wed, 2 Sep 92 22:05:49 GMT
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- jlg@cochiti.lanl.gov (Jim Giles) writes:
- mccall@mksol.dseg.ti.com (fred j mccall 575-3539) writes:
- >|> [...]
- >|> No, Jim, my intent was to suggest that if you found UNIX so bad
- >|> because it was complex that you should seek something MUCH simpler. I
- >|> think you better leave interpreting my intent to me; you're lousy at
- >|> it.
- >
- >Finally you've said something right. I found UNIX to be unnecessarily
- >complex. I understood it (finally, after much effort), but I find it
- >difficult to recommend such unnecessary pain to other users - since it
- >was among the least powerful and hardest to use systems I've ever used.
- >And there *are* simpler things with *more* power already available.
-
- For the fourth time, what are the actual English language names of
- these things, what sort of hardware do they run on, and who sells
- them?
-
- >--
- >J. Giles
-
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