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From: dce@smsc.sony.com (David Elliott)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.misc
Subject: Re: UNIX is yuck (was Re: Next intro...)
Message-ID: <1990Oct8.051346.2365@smsc.sony.com>
Date: 8 Oct 90 05:13:46 GMT
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In article <1990Oct8.091751.3053@csc.anu.oz.au> pfr654@csc.anu.oz.au writes:
>I am a long time Mac user and have just recently had to learn some UNIX for 
>a Decstation 3100.
>
>IT IS HORRIBLE!
>
>UNIX is an ancient operating system! Invented in the time of dinasour 
>computers with less power than a Mac Plus!!

There will always be people who prefer MacOS over Unix, just as there
are people who call the Mac a toy, people who believe that VMS beats
everything available, Atari lovers, Amiga-ites, MS-DOS and Windows
fiends, and evangelists for just about every other hardware and
software combo around.

Having been a Unix systems programmer for a long time, most of my
arguments for Unix would be emotional, though having also been a Mac
user for a few years, I might be able to muster some objectivity.

Still, the point of this is not whether Unix is better or the Mac is
better.  The point is that I believe that there exists a group of
people who would just as soon buy a Unix workstation made by someone
other than Apple as to buy a Mac.  Now that these workstations are
getting into the same price range as the Mac, the money part of the
decision is going away.