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- From: apl@world.std.com (Anthony P Lawrence)
- Subject: Re: The Problem with UNIX
- Message-ID: <Bxo6sn.FtC@world.std.com>
- Organization: The World Public Access UNIX, Brookline, MA
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- References: <1992Nov13.091914.6799@thunder.mcrcim.mcgill.edu>
- Date: Fri, 13 Nov 1992 19:43:34 GMT
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- mouse@thunder.mcrcim.mcgill.edu (der Mouse) writes:
- : No, you misunderstand. Not "why bother using a computer anyway" but
- : "why use a system which wasn't designed for you and isn't suited to
- : you". UNIX was built by hackers for hackers, and hackers seem to like
- : it just fine. If you don't like it, by all means, don't use it.
-
- True, but: shouldn't we have an interest in keeping Unix alive in
- the general use arena? If SuperDos VIII completely takes over,
- aren't we left in the same position as those wonderfully strange
- folks who still run CP/M ?
-
- Personally, I don't want a shell that thinks very much about what
- I might have meant. But I think it would be real nice if there
- were such a sissified but friendly little helper around that I
- could use for the people who hate anything I can give them now.
-
- Tony apl@world.std.com
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