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- From: peter@global.hacktic.nl (Peter Busser)
- Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
- Subject: Re: IS UNIX DEAD?
- Message-ID: <1992Nov6.121006.6641@global.hacktic.nl>
- Date: Fri, 6 Nov 1992 12:10:06 GMT
- References: <6212@ucsbcsl.ucsb.edu> <1992Oct27.023759.23509@dmp.csiro.au> <Bx4vFq.Ctw@eonsw.demon.co.uk>
- Organization: Global Village 1
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- ian@eonsw.demon.co.uk (Ian Leonard) writes:
-
- >I bet there have been more books written that try to explain MSDOS
- >to new users that there have been for Unix. Getting a new user up and
- >running on MSDOS is 100 times more difficult than it should be.
-
- That's because most UNIX machines are maintained by people who already have
- the knowledge. The large number of books that try to explain MS-DOS to new
- users only shows that there are many unknowledgable users who use MS-DOS.
-
- >Your not comparing like with like. Unix is for professional, large
- >installations. DOS isn't.
-
- That's the point, it isn't for professional, large installations anymore.
- Workstations are also great single-user machines. They cost less and offer more
- than high-end PCs. If these machines can run NT in the future, then users who
- buy such a machine will choose NT instead of UNIX. Every PC user at this moment
- is a potential workstation user in say 5 to 10 years. What's going to happen to
- UNIX if that market is conquered by NT?
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