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From: KPURCELL@LIVERPOOL.AC.UK
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.misc
Subject: Re: Where does UNIX fit in a graphically-based computer world?
Message-ID: <90255.184528KPURCELL@LIVERPOOL.AC.UK>
Date: 12 Sep 90 17:45:28 GMT
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Someone said:

[IBM] have a lot of catching up to do
with companies like Sun.  Sun has many years of experience integrating
their GUI over UNIX.  Not to say it is the best system it could be, but
there is something to be said for a working and tested system.

This is why they have licenced NeXTstep from NeXT and it will run across their
range of machines from (very slowly) on a PS/2 to (nicely I hope) on an
RS/6000. But we have drifted away from the Mac here.

Unix is here to stay. The CLI won't appear to casual users in the next few
years (but it'll still be there, just like the C shell and Korn shell's didn't
kill off the Bourne shell).

I think the original statement that started the thread was a non-squitur
(yeap, Proof can't spell it either!)

Kevin Purcell             | kpurcell@liverpool.ac.uk
Surface Science Centre    |
Liverpool University      | Omit needless words.