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- From: peter@global.hacktic.nl (Peter Busser)
- Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
- Subject: Re: IS UNIX DEAD?
- Message-ID: <1992Nov6.135030.7345@global.hacktic.nl>
- Date: Fri, 6 Nov 1992 13:50:30 GMT
- References: <95691@netnews.upenn.edu> <Bx3DCn.I04@unix.amherst.edu> <Bx5nw5.MFr@undergrad.math.waterloo.edu> <Bx6BFp.BAw@unix.amherst.edu>
- Organization: Global Village 1
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- twpierce@unix.amherst.edu (Tim Pierce) writes:
-
- >That's about it. I do attempt to make it easier for them, because I
- >think I'm doing them a disservice by not trying. But I don't think it
- >would be a wise idea to change the underlying structure of Unix to
- >suit these people.
-
- I don't think that's even necessary. They underlying structure is good enough,
- what needs to be changed are the upper layers, whith which the user
- communicates directly. These layers only need to hide the details of the
- underlying layers.
-
- >From where I'm sitting, there are a fuck of a lot of people using
- >Unix. Considering that there are free Unices for 386-and-up machines,
- >NT is going to have a hard time beating the price.
-
- Price is unimportant. What is important is what the user _thinks_ to gain with
- such a system. Most users don't gain anything by using Linux or 386BSD, they
- only lose the applications they're used to.
-
- >The power that Unix is known for is immediately apparent to anyone who
- >works with it only moderately. I'm not talking about ls-versus-dir
- >here, or man-versus-help.
-
- Right, but first you have to convince people to change because UNIX is a better
- xxx than xxx and then you can teach them about the system, that is, if they
- want to. Most users don't want to know more than they need to accomplish a
- tasks.
-
-