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From: utoddl@uncecs.edu (Todd M. Lewis)
Newsgroups: comp.misc
Subject: Re: Low Productivity of Knowledge Workers
Message-ID: <1989Oct6.130149.24821@uncecs.edu>
Date: 6 Oct 89 13:01:49 GMT
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In article <6375@ficc.uu.net>, peter@ficc.uu.net (Peter da Silva) writes:
> I don't think I ever used the term "unusable". Kludge, yes, and baroque, yes,
> and a waste of resources, yes. But not unusable. Hell, I've even recommended
> the bloody things. But setting up an office around a bunch of networked
> DOS machines is a dead end. And the cancerous spread of the beasts has
> hurt productivity.
> -- 
> Peter da Silva, *NIX support guy @ Ferranti International Controls Corporation.

Gee, Peter.  You have this annoying habit of being painfully right.
And there you go again, cutting right to the bone and exposing
the gleaming red of bloody truth.  I've spent the last five years
setting up PCs, networks, installing applications, and electronically
reorganizing offices all over our campus, and every day it has
become more clear that _there_has_to_be_a_better_way_.  Sure, DOS
works, and you can do things with it, but it is a dead end.
If the effort that has been put into making so much software work
on such a limited OS had been put into a real, mature OS, we
would all be much better off than we are now.

10 million lemmings can't be wrong.  Sure.
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