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- Date: Tue, 10 Nov 1992 21:20:42 -0500
- From: Nicholas Kramer <nk24+@andrew.cmu.edu>
- Subject: Re: IS UNIX DEAD? (long)
- In-Reply-To: <1992Nov7.233410.15205@global.hacktic.nl>
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- Excerpts from netnews.comp.unix.questions: 7-Nov-92 Re: IS UNIX DEAD?
- (long) by Peter Busser@global.hack
- >There is no standard. Just think of Motif as CAT ,D2 and OPEN LOOK as DIR.
- >And many applications use their own user interface. It has hardly anything
- >to do with minimizing the learning curve. UNIX has an elegant kernel
- >interface but not an elegant user interface.
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- This is about as trivial as it gets: Complaining because there are two
- GUIs and not one: Open Look and Motif. Let's face it, the average user
- doesn't have ANY preference with regards to Macintosh vs. MS-Windows.
- What makes you think that the average user will give any more of a shit
- about Motif vs. Open Look? Believe it or not, I think some of these
- average users may actually appreciate having a choice.
-
- BTW, I do think you all are overestimating the power of the "average
- user" when it comes to deciding the course of the PC world. The "average
- user" couldn't afford to buy a machine powerful enough to run GUIs when
- they first came out, but look where we went... Yeah, Joe Stupid may be a
- large part of it, but he ain't the only thing determining what the next
- operating system will be. (We all gotta keep in mind that not every
- "average user" is stupid to the core, as several of the "common user
- advocates" have suggested.)
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- Nick
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