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From: schiebel@cs.wvu.wvnet.edu (Darrell Schiebel)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.misc
Subject: Re: UNIX is yuck (was Re: Next intro...)
Message-ID: <902@h.cs.wvu.wvnet.edu>
Date: 7 Oct 90 21:46:39 GMT
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In article <1990Oct8.091751.3053@csc.anu.oz.au>, pfr654@csc.anu.oz.au writes:
> In article <1990Oct6.172357.18366@smsc.sony.com>, dce@smsc.sony.com (David Elliott) 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!!

The "some" Unix you "kind of" know obviously qualifies you to pass judgement
on the OS.  MacOS will never posses the power and simplicity of Unix because
of the loss of control which comes with layers of graphical user interfaces.
By the same token, Unix will never be an operating system which the new user
can use without work.

I don't see MultiFinder being ported to workstation platform of nearly every
major computer manufacturer (DEC Ultrix, HP-UX, SunOS, AUX, Xenix, etc.).
However, undoubtedly all this will change now that the world knows the true
nature of Unix which has remained hidden until now: "IT IS HORRIBLE!".

Darrell Schiebel			(schiebel@a.cs.wvu.wvnet.edu)
Computer Science
West Virginia University