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- From: rahardj@ccu.umanitoba.ca (Budi Rahardjo)
- Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
- Subject: Re: IS UNIX DEAD? (long)
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- Date: 6 Nov 92 19:24:18 GMT
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- papresco@undergrad.math.waterloo.edu (Paul Prescod) writes:
- >>A wise system administrator would do well to write small shell scripts
- >>to do exactly that. Why, however, should the operating system say
- >>this automatically? What do you propose it tell Apple II users who
- >>are trying to type "cat" to get a directory?
-
- >If there are enough Apple II users to warrant it, sure, add it. It's
- >more intuitive then ls anyways!
- Why is that more intuitive than 'ls' ? I have to learn CAT ,D2 ...
- >For the most part, though, a true
- >marketer looks at the market leader and asks:How can I steal his
- >market share. DOS is King. DOS is dying. There are
- >several competitors for it's crown. Most of them do DIR. Unix does
- >not.
- Why is that important to have DIR. You can setup 'dir' as an alias for 'ls'.
- ls -l is not as difficult as DIR /W
-
- >That snort says it all: It tells me why you think Unix can win the OS
- >battle, and why you can't see it's flaws. X, by the way is not a
- >real GUI. You need a good window manager for a real gui. You need
- >applications that work with the window manager.
- ================================================
-
- I don't understand what you mean by that. X application works with any
- window manager. I mean I switch between olwm, tvtwm, NCDwm, and still
- able to use FrameMaker without a problem.
-
- >>Coherent is $99. Minix 1.5 is $169 from Prentice-Hall. 386BSD and
- >>Linux are free.
- >Where is free toll-free
- >phone support for Linux and 386BSD? And where can I buy them?
-
- I believe there's somebody who is selling Linux and give phone support
- (somewhere in Europe...).
- Also wait for Linux and 386BSD CD-ROMs.
-
- -- budi
-
- --
- Budi Rahardjo <Budi_Rahardjo@UManitoba.Ca>
- Unix Support - Computer Services - University of Manitoba
-