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From: ralph@cbnewsj.att.com (Ralph Brandi)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.misc
Subject: Re: UNIX is yuck (was Re: Next intro...)
Message-ID: <1990Oct10.025344.12420@cbnewsj.att.com>
Date: 10 Oct 90 02:53:44 GMT
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In article <1990Oct9.003852.18788@oswego.Oswego.EDU>, ostroff@Oswego.EDU (Boyd Ostroff) writes:
 
> Don't get me wrong; I like (enough to spend several thousand of my hard-earned
> dollars) Macs and use them extensively.  Same goes for unix systems.
> To me, the real strengths of unix are its communications features and the
> fact that it is a multi-user (not just multi-tasking) OS.  If you don't
> need these things, perhaps it's not for you....

I think this shortchanges one of the UNIX(R) system's strongest
points, the ability to easily chain together a number of small
programs in a number of ways to perform whatever task you need done.
I find this ability to be perhaps the most elegant thing about the
system. It took me a long time to appreciate the simplicity of the
approach, but I do now.  When I came to AT&T three years ago, I had
spent most of my computer time on a Mac.  Dealing with UNIX seemed 
like a necessary evil.  And it isn't the easiest system to learn.
But I can do things with UNIX that I can't do with my Mac, and I
like that.  Use whatever's the most appropriate tool for the job.

Of course, they'll have to pry my Mac out of my cold, dead hands if
they want to take it away from me.... :-)
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Ralph Brandi     ralph@mtunq.att.com     att!mtunq!ralph

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