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- From: goodwin@edieng.enet.dec.com (Pete Goodwin)
- Subject: Re: OS differences and improvements
- Message-ID: <1992Sep8.115940.23326@rdg.dec.com>
- Sender: news@rdg.dec.com (Mr News)
- Organization: Digital Equipment Corporation
- Date: Tue, 8 Sep 1992 11:57:06 GMT
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- In article <Bu8DG7.DJL@ibmpcug.co.uk>, gtoal@ibmpcug.co.uk (Graham Toal) writes...
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- >> I'd like to see a CLI that is reasonably easy to understand
- >>at first glance, rather than one with magic words.
- >
- >That's what's needed for beginners or infrequent users - mnemonic command
- >names. Iconic names are indeed for gurus. That's why unix users love
- >them - unix has too many tricky concepts for bozos to learn, hence the
- >average unix user tends to be more intelligent than the average DOS or
- >VMS user, and is more capable of learning the runic command set. Thus
- >reinforcing the image of unix as an obscure guru's system.
-
- Humph!!! B^>
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- I'd have thought even gurus would welcome a simpler system, after all they want
- to use the system not have to work their minds around clever cli's.
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- Pete Goodwin
- goodwin@system.enet.dec.com
-