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- Path: sparky!uunet!mcsun!uknet!siesoft!shark!tomc
- From: tomc@siesoft.co.uk (Tom Crossland)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.acorn
- Subject: Re: OS differences and improvements (Was Re: new PC's, what's happening acorn?)
- Message-ID: <1992Sep2.191659.2721@siesoft.co.uk>
- Date: 2 Sep 92 19:16:59 GMT
- References: <Bty54x.CM@comp.vuw.ac.nz>
- Sender: news@siesoft.co.uk (Usenet News)
- Reply-To: tomc@siesoft.co.uk
- Organization: Siemens Nixdorf Information Systems Ltd.
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- Gavin.Flower@comp.vuw.ac.nz (Gavin Flower) writes:
- : You must remember that UNIX was designed as a user friendly operating
- : system - people who worked 8 days a week, 25 hours a day, didn't have
- : time to type more characters than they had too. Especially using
- : Teletypes at 10, or less, characters per second. They also had a
- : sense of humour.
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- UNIX was designed as a development environment, not a user friendly
- operating system. RISC OS was designed to be user friendly hence the
- nice GUI, the same idea behind Windows NT etc. UNIX is anything but
- user friendly. This doesn't mean it's bad though, it's by far the most
- powerful and flexible operating system I've ever used. I love it ;-)
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