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- Path: sparky!uunet!netxcom!jwc
- From: jwc@netx.com (Jeffrey W. Comer)
- Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
- Subject: Re: IS UNIX DEAD?
- Summary: Let the religious wars begin!
- Message-ID: <1382@netxcom.netx.com>
- Date: 5 Nov 92 17:04:16 GMT
- Sender: news@netxcom.netx.com
- Organization: The Chaos Bobs
- Lines: 21
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- Having worked my way up the ranks from MVS to VM and then DOS, with side
- trips into VAX and NOS, and finally *NIX, I must say UNIX beats them all
- hands down. No other OS has the flexibilty and power the others do. I'll
- take three boxes running UNIX over a whole roomfull of IBM mainframes any
- day. I am convinced JCL was the result of a freshman prank gone awry. And
- IEFBR14? Come on, this must be somebody's idea of a joke!
-
- And hey! Don't knock DOS! It may be a wimpy little thing in the corner, but
- it got the micro revolution started, and I wager alot of us are employed
- today thanks to this boon. DOS has its problems too, and if *I* had any say
- in its design, it would look a lot better, but remember DOS was originally
- designed to fit onto and operate from a SINGLE 360K floppy! Which versions
- of UNIX can make that claim?
-
- That having been said, UNIX does need to wake up and smell the roses, as it
- were. Shells and launchers are all the rage, and though I love my X-terminal
- and all its cool icons, UNIX would gain a lot of charisma points and market
- standing if it had a "windows-like" look-and-feel (uh-oh, I think MicroSloth
- might be upset by that one...). q:-))
-
- Just watching from the sidelines, -JC.
-