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- From: rm72@prism.gatech.EDU (Robert B. McCullough)
- Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
- Subject: Re: IS UNIX DEAD (long)
- Message-ID: <74541@hydra.gatech.EDU>
- Date: 12 Nov 92 13:33:52 GMT
- References: <RICH.92Nov4093932@rich.kastle.com> <1ddle0INNfn5@uranium.sto.pdb.sni.de> <BxKKtu.MMM@undergrad.math.waterloo.edu>
- Organization: Georgia Institute of Technology
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- >>UNIX doesn't have these "user friendlyness" of DOS, because it isn't DOS
- >>that's user friendly, it's the applications that were written for it.
- >>One OS is no more "user friendly" than the other.
- >>
- >True, the problem is there are people, in this very newsgroup, who see
- >no reason to try to make user friendly applications for unix. To them,
- >if you can't use VI right off the bat, or enjoy learning obscure,
- >nonsensical, illogical keystrokes, you should go back to the mac.
- >THIS will kill Unix.
- Total B.S.!! I'd love to have a user friendly application and VI
- is it for me. It grips me to hear DOS users say "VI it's to hard to
- learn". Come on thats why UNIX has got power, DOS doesn't. I'm not gonna
- sit here and haggle about well DOS does this ,oh yea well UNIX does this
- and etc. MY opinion like or not--DOS BLOWS!! Girlie OS.
-
- Flame me, cry, whine I don't care.
-
- Wasn't the Byte article talking about NT anyways?
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- Robert B. McCullough-Computer Operations Tech.
- Registrar Data Systems
- Georgia Institute of Technology
- Internet: rm72@prism.gatech.edu
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