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- Path: sparky!uunet!ukma!kilroy
- From: kilroy@ms.uky.edu (Paul S. Kilroy)
- Subject: Unix v. Dos (Re: IS UNIX DEAD?)
- References: <BxH7rH.2qs@unix.amherst.edu>
- <1992Nov12.144857.2092@global.hacktic.nl>
- Message-ID: <1992Nov13.102830.6155@ms.uky.edu>
- Date: Fri, 13 Nov 1992 15:28:30 GMT
- Organization: Big, Dangerous Ideas, Inc.
- Lines: 56
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- peter@global.hacktic.nl (Peter Busser) writes:
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- |sfkaplan@unix.amherst.edu (Scott Kaplan) writes:
-
- |>Peter Busser seems insistant in his response that UNIX has the ability to be
- |>all things to all people, if only programmers would make it as such. Then all
- |>the UNIX world has to do is make it commercially feasible.
-
- First, Lets be honest, that is the _real_ subject, isnt it?
-
- Second, Maybe the unix world doesnt want to make everything commercially
- feasible. I, for one, love the fact my os and gui are free (see below).
-
- Thirdly, This is mostly opinion, but here it goes. I dont think
- unix is ready for the average user. Honestly, they are too ignorant.
- Anyone who refuses to learn ls to replace dir is not ready to
- try somethign new.. Can any of you remember back to when you first
- got your 8086 and threw ibm-dos on it? I can. I can also
- remember not knowing how to get a list of all the files.
- I said, like most dos users are saying to unix, " This sucks
- I cant even get a list of my files", I was trying every command
- I knew from other os's, but none worked. Finally I read though every
- command in the book until I came upon DIR. My point is, We have
- all had to learn new things to move up in the world. Dos on a 8086
- is a lot more powerful than a c64, and you had to learn new commands
- to take advantage of it. And you did it, and your better because of it.
- Unix is a lot more powerful than dos, no one can argue with that,
- and you need to learn some new commands to take advantage of this too.
-
- Fourthly, Unix is a lot more configurable..
- With all the 100% free software on my computer, I can make Xwindows
- go from a ms-windows looking machine, to a system7 looking machine,
- to a nextstep looking machine back to the system defaults, only
- changing a few text setup files. Plus all this is documented very
- well in the man pages for these programs.
-
- anyway heres some info on my 'puter if ya like it..
- 486/33, runing linux .98p2(see comp.os.linux and ftp tsx-11.mit.edu
- /pub/linux/FAQ) I also have a program called xfm, which a freely
- distributable file/applications manager, with drag and drop ect.
- it is *very* nice for people learning unix, you really dont have
- to youch a command line if the .xfmrc is setup right.
- ie. my wife doesnt have to touch the command
- line cause I setup the file, please dont give me chicken and egg
- stuff please..
-
- well, thats it, flame away
-
- disclamer, It is very possible that NOTHING in this document
- is spelled correctly.
-
-
- paul
-
- --
- -Paul (kilroy@ms.uky.edu)
-