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From: crs@lanl.gov (Charlie Sorsby)
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.misc
Subject: Re: Unix or DOS (was Re: Where is the long awaited MS DOS 5.0 ?)
Summary: This, I believe...
Message-ID: <10119@lanl.gov>
Date: 2 Jan 91 20:43:23 GMT
References: <8550@tekgvs.LABS.TEK.COM=> <josef.660901840@ugum01> <1990Dec30.205621.145@mstr.hgc.edu>
Organization: Los Alamos Natl Lab, Los Alamos, N.M.
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In article <1990Dec30.205621.145@mstr.hgc.edu=>, craig@sa1.hgc.edu (craig chaiken) writes:
=> I have administered a number of Unix systems over the last several years.
=> It is very clear that UNIX is a far more powerful operating system, but
=> with power comes complexity.  I am not referring to the more complex syntax,
=> but to the more complex administration of UNIX.
=> 
=> [Deleted examples] 
=> 
=> My point is this: An operating system as powerful and complex as UNIX
=> requires
=> skilled administration.  To put it simply, UNIX will never replace MSDOS as
=> a general purpose operating system, because sophisticated users represent
=> too small a percentage of the installed computer base.
=> 
=> Craig Chaiken
=> craig@mstr.hgc.edu

Now these are reasons that make sense.  To say that most people can
remember the meaning of, say, "dir" but not "ls" is an insult to
their intelligence.  But, to say that administration of a
full-blown Unix system is beyond the capabilities of the average PC
user is easy to believe.

As a user, I'd never thought of that.  Thanks, Craig.  I do wish
that they'd made the user interface a lot more Unix-like, though.
Sigh...

Best,

Charlie Sorsby						"I'm the NRA!"
	crs@lanl.gov
	sorsby@pprg.unm.edu