Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!ames!uakari.primate.wisc.edu!ginosko!uunet!ficc!peter From: peter@ficc.uu.net (Peter da Silva) Newsgroups: comp.misc Subject: Re: Low Productivity of Knowledge Workers Message-ID: <6409@ficc.uu.net> Date: 4 Oct 89 02:51:53 GMT References: <7916@microsoft.UUCP> <903@fiver.UUCP> Organization: Xenix Support, FICC Lines: 19 Our friend at Microsoft's position seems to be that things are much better in the DOS world than I think. Well, things might have improved in the past two years (last time I was extensively DOSing), but that still doesn't make up for the isolation among DOS users for the 7 years prior to that. Nor for the continued low productivity of knowledge workers at sites that don't get the latest and greatest. The first office automation system using UNIX was in something like 1976. MP/M and Cromix were providing multiuser CP/M systems in 1980. By 1989 DOS seems to be catching up, given the claims of transparent file sharing on DOS networks. Just think were we'd be today if we hadn't taken a ten year time-out. -- Peter da Silva, *NIX support guy @ Ferranti International Controls Corporation. Biz: peter@ficc.uu.net, +1 713 274 5180. Fun: peter@sugar.hackercorp.com. `-_-' ``I feel that any [environment] with users in it is "adverse".'' 'U` -- Eric Peterson