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- From: peter@global.hacktic.nl (Peter Busser)
- Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
- Subject: Re: IS UNIX DEAD?
- Message-ID: <1992Nov12.001708.804@global.hacktic.nl>
- Date: Thu, 12 Nov 1992 00:17:08 GMT
- References: <5664@dsacg3.dsac.dla.mil> <1992Nov3.232025.14287@slate.mines.colorado.edu> <1992Nov6.134154.7257@global.hacktic.nl> <BxD6nn.6Bz@unix.amherst.edu>
- Organization: Global Village 1
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- twpierce@unix.amherst.edu (Tim Pierce) writes:
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- >>Ok. Pretend that I'm Joe User and I go to a shop. I leave the shop with a UNIX
- >>tape. Now how do I install this tape without expertise? (s/tape/cd/g if you
- >>want). Installing UNIX is simple? Forget it!
- >Plug in the SLS disks for Linux and answer the pretty questions.
-
- I did. Have you ever taught a novice how to partition a harddisk??? How to
- make a file system then?
-
- >Next?
-
- >>> Unix is time tested. Newcomers like NT and OS/2 are still too
- >>> buggy to be really useful for the general audience. It'll take
- >>> some years to sort it out.
- >>
- >>Probably, but does that stop people?
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- >Not to begin with. When it becomes apparent, though, that there is an
- >alternative to their buggy, problematic platforms, they might begin to
- >choose otherwise.
-
- You don't mean to imply that UNIX is a real alternative at this moment, do you?
-
- Greetings,
- Peter "Have you tried to teach your sister vi? I did... :-(" Busser
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