home *** CD-ROM | disk | FTP | other *** search
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.acorn
- Path: sparky!uunet!decwrl!deccrl!news.crl.dec.com!rdg.dec.com!edieng.enet.dec.com!goodwin
- From: goodwin@edieng.enet.dec.com (Pete Goodwin)
- Subject: Re: OS differences and improvements (Was Re: new PC's, what's happening acorn?)
- Message-ID: <1992Aug26.211041.9706@rdg.dec.com>
- Sender: news@rdg.dec.com (Mr News)
- Organization: Digital Equipment Corporation
- Date: Wed, 26 Aug 1992 21:03:04 GMT
- Lines: 25
-
-
- In article <1992Aug26.111525.18568@rtf.bt.co.uk>, duplain@rtf.bt.co.uk (Andy Duplain) writes...
-
- > UNIX is *not* user friendly... it is expert friendly. Once you
- > have got to grips with the basics you hav a very powerful
- > environment; e.g. piping output of one command into another,
- > shell expanding filenames etc. With this sort of power, the expert
- > is free to choose how his/her environment works, by building more
- > powerful and tailoured commands from the basic ones.
-
- I think even experts would prefer to start life with a much simpler CLI. Or are
- you saying you _need_ to be an expert? 8)
-
- > I like the Archimedes; I have one! I like the windowing environment,
- > but I don't like the filesystem, and the command line syntax is
- > inferior to UNIX. Also what idiot decided that the backspace key
- > would do nothing, and the delete key would do backspace ? He should
- > be shot.
-
- Since I don't use the CLI much and stay in the desktop, it doesn't make that
- much difference to me. The filing system can be a pain - 10 character filenames
- and only 77 files per directory, who imposed that!!!
-
- Pete Goodwin
- goodwin@system.enet.dec.com
-