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- From: nk24+@andrew.cmu.edu (Nicholas Kramer)
- Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
- Subject: Re: IS UNIX DEAD? (long)
- Message-ID: <Af0dcnG00iUx43BO43@andrew.cmu.edu>
- Date: 12 Nov 92 07:53:55 GMT
- Article-I.D.: andrew.Af0dcnG00iUx43BO43
- Organization: Freshman, MCS general, Carnegie Mellon, Pittsburgh, PA
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- In-Reply-To: <BxKn4u.4HA@undergrad.math.waterloo.edu>
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- One quick question: What is the most widely used operating system
- around? DOS. No Windows, just DOS. While nearly everything is now
- growing faster than DOS-only machines, there is still a quite
- substantial base of DOS only machines. Most of these aren't power users.
- Most are average Joe's who learned Word Perfect for DOS and don't really
- feel like learning anything new. Many people in fact were not overly
- thrilled when they were forced into Windows, away from their familiar
- Word Perfect for DOS. (Some got WP for Win, some didn't)
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- My point is that most average users have to be dragged to the next
- operating system anyhow. And the people who do the dragging aren't other
- average Joes, and they aren't the computer experts. Its the people who
- purchase the machines at work. Why did IBM PCs become such big sellers
- in the home? Because they were big sellers in the office. Whatever the
- management is sold on for operating systems is what the next mass
- operating system will become. And for better or worse, managers still go
- for perceived power as much as they go for user friendliness.
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- Nick
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