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From: curt@dtix.dt.navy.mil (Welch)
Newsgroups: news.newusers.questions
Subject: Re: Why doesn't someone create and easy to use rn?
Message-ID: <186@nems.dt.navy.mil>
Date: 13 Oct 89 15:19:26 GMT
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>>In article <183@nems.dt.navy.mil> I wrote:
>>You must understand that for a "typical" Unix user (a programmer), ...

>>Most of our 1000 users don't even know what Unix is, ...

doug@jhunix.HCF.JHU.EDU (Douglas W O'neal) writes:
>Does it seem a little strange to you that a typical (i.e, one of the majority)
>UNIX user is a programmer who does not know what his/her operating system is?

Interesting.

I said that because I don't think our users are "typical" UNIX users.  That's
why we decided to write tnews.  Perhaps they are more typical than I realize.

>Doug O'Neal                  Distributed Systems Programmer

Curt Welch
curt@dtix.dt.navy.mil