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- From: peter@global.hacktic.nl (Peter Busser)
- Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
- Subject: Re: IS UNIX DEAD? (long)
- Message-ID: <1992Nov11.223818.323@global.hacktic.nl>
- Date: Wed, 11 Nov 1992 22:38:18 GMT
- References: <1cilaoINNpjm@haydn.crhc.uiuc.edu> <Bwsy4E.DJL@undergrad.math.waterloo.edu> <1992Oct29.230953.1633@ultb.isc.rit.edu> <9211030038.47@rmkhome.UUCP> <1992Nov6.113324.6348@global.hacktic.nl> <BxEAsz.35w@ccu.umanitoba.ca>
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- rahardj@ccu.umanitoba.ca (Budi Rahardjo) writes:
-
- >>SHORT? That's hardly the word, miniscule is even too much... :-)
- >>[list with *9* apps deleted]
- >Have you read any UNIX-related magazine ? You will be amazed by the number
- >of ready to use applications. I've seen a list of hundred applications
- >available under UNIX.
-
- I've seen those lists. But I have two questions:
-
- - for which UNIX?
- - how much is the difference between a DOS/Windows app and a comparable
- UNIX app? (Ok, let the flames come in! :)))
-
- >>Wow! ODT uses Motif, NeXT uses NeXTStep, A/UX uses finder and SVR4.2 uses
- >>OPEN LOOK, I guess. That makes four different UNIXes with four different
- >>user interfaces. With NT or OS/2 you only need to learn only *1* user
- >>interface.
-
- >Well, where can I find NT ? Can I buy it now ?
-
- Yep you can. Pull out a few hundred bucks and you can have it now. Besides,
- the user interface won't be (much) different from Windows 3.x so for learning
- the user interface...
-
- >If you want 1 user interface just pick one of the choices.
- >What's so difficult about that ?
-
- Because the application programmer made his choice, which, alas, is probably
- not my choice. Have you ever worked with X? If I for instance don't like the
- Motif window manager and I switch to the OPEN LOOK window manager. That makes
- that makes several things look different on the screen. But everything the
- application displays remains exactly the same. In fact, the only things to
- change would be the background, the system menus and the window borders. Sure
- choice has it's advantages, but it sure also has it's disadvantages.
-
- Greetings,
- Peter Busser
-
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