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- From: mccall@mksol.dseg.ti.com (fred j mccall 575-3539)
- Subject: Re: IS UNIX DEAD?
- Message-ID: <1992Nov5.185535.5472@mksol.dseg.ti.com>
- Organization: Texas Instruments Inc
- References: <BwxvEx.8Mn@unix.amherst.edu> <95652@netnews.upenn.edu> <Bx11EM.30o@unix.amherst.edu> <95691@netnews.upenn.edu>
- Date: Thu, 5 Nov 1992 18:55:35 GMT
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- In <95691@netnews.upenn.edu> ioi@pixmap.seas.upenn.edu (Ioi Kim Lam) writes:
-
- >Religiously, I think that Unix is the most beautiful OS ever made. It is a
- >shame that only a tiny population in the world shares its power and elegance.
- >It is nothing but arrogance and selfishness in the Unix community that try
- >to deny the power of Unix to the common users. It is this bunch of sick
- >computer scientists who refuse to think a better user interface can enable
- >everyone from 6 to 86 to use Unix and that the power of Unix is their own
- >and no one else should have their hands on.
-
- I'm not sure what you're trying to say here, but I can't get any sense
- out of it.
-
- >Go and look at the development of NT. You are right, it is nothing new but
- >a nice commercial plot. It is just Unix (maybe even a simplified one) in a new
- >box.
-
- Not hardly.
-
- >You guys should have done this years ago. With the advance of NT and
- >other new OS's, traditional Unix customers will say goodbye to their
- >old-time friend. They still love Unix, but in their mind, the new OS's are
- >better Unix'es than Unix.
-
- >Perhaps it would not be NT, but one day, a new operating system will come
- >up and deliver the power of Unix to virtually everybody. And that is the
- >day that all the Unix sysadmin got fired.
-
- I think it was Henry Spencer that had a quote in his .sig that I
- loved. It ran something like, "Ever since Unix was developed, other
- people have been spending time reinventing it -- poorly." That seems
- to describe NT (among other things).
-
- --
- "Insisting on perfect safety is for people who don't have the balls to live
- in the real world." -- Mary Shafer, NASA Ames Dryden
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- Fred.McCall@dseg.ti.com - I don't speak for others and they don't speak for me.
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