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- From: papresco@lambert.uwaterloo.ca (Paul Prescod)
- Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
- Subject: Re: IS UNIX DEAD?
- Message-ID: <BxD9vM.MAJ@undergrad.math.waterloo.edu>
- Date: 7 Nov 92 22:16:34 GMT
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- >>2. It should have a powerful command line.
- >
- > Are you really an idiot or do you just play one on Usenet?
-
- I'm not sure why you feel the need for personal attacks. I was merely making the point that
- a poweful command line IS an important part of a good operating system, and that whatever
- the "operating system of the future" is, it will have one. Unix already does, it needs
- to keep that lead.
-
- >>3.It should install from floppy as well as CD.
- >
- > Ah, you _are_ an idiot.
- > (Take a look at Linux.)
-
- NO, YOU are an idiot, if you see linux as the hope for the future.
-
- Imagine if PC-Magazine (or Pcworld etc.) said: LINUX is the best OS in the entire Universe,
- and it's got EVERYTHING you need to run...all you need is internet access to FTP it, or
- access to a BBS (what's a BBS says most people) to download it. And then you have to
- learn to unzip or untar it (what is unzip? What is untar?). And then you have to make
- it. (make it? You mean write it from scratch?) If you want a nice graphical interface
- like Windows or Os/2, you have to ftp and make that too. And even so, most of the
- software doesn't take advantage of it. And that which does will have a nonstandard
- interface.
-
- >>4.It should run, graphically, in less then 8MB of memory.
- >
- > Take a look at Linux.
- >
- >>5.It should cost less then $300.00
- >
- > Take a look at Linux.
- >
- > Before you try to convince people of unix's flaws, I suggest you
- >first make sure you have a clue what you're talking about.
-
-
- It's you that doesn't have the clue: I've said it 100 times. We need ONE Unixish
- operating system that does ALL of these things. Telling users: Unix is great because
- Nextstep is easy, and Solaris is graphical, and Linux is free will get Unix NOWHERE!!!
-
- It's like saying Microsoft products are perfect because Excel is powerful, DOS is popular
- and Windows is easy to use. The one product has NO effect on the rest!!!
-
- Excel is expensive, DOS is crap and Windows (well I guess that's crap too!)
-