Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!yee From: yee@aix01.aix.rpi.edu (Crimson Avenger) Subject: Re: (Sigh) Here we go again... Message-ID: <3.8g.ra@rpi.edu> Nntp-Posting-Host: aix01srv.aix.rpi.edu References: <1991May1.163339.27363@watson.ibm.com> <48256@ut-emx.uucp> <1991May2.233712.8039@netcom.COM> Date: 8 May 91 03:46:33 GMT Lines: 31 ARGG!! Unix and OS/2 are TWO seperate products for different marketing stragety. Unix came first and is now running on a host of machines from mainframes to micro-computers, while OS/2 is MAINLY for the IBM PC and clone family. You can't run OS/2 on a VAX or some other mini-computer. Even IBM is recognizing the fact with the popularity of UNIX that it has AIX for 370 mainframes all the way down to RISC 6000, and to IBM PCs. You can run Unix on the PC. Which do I prefer? I have seen Unix and I like it very much. I tend to think OS/2 with the Presentation Manager is sort of like Windows which I run. Somebody had the idea of the PM being the main selling point for OS/2 was wrong. Let's really look at the question of GUI: Who is GUI really for? I grew up learning to use the command line and anything you can do for a GUI, you can do with a command line. GUI is really an end-user product for someone who don't want to learn how to use the computer. It's just point and click thing. I prefer that we go back to command line rather than just point and shoot. Why? It would force people to learn about the computer and become more computer literate. I vote we scrap the PM, Apple's System 7, X11, and other GUIs.. make the user learn about the computer. Any seconds? p.s. I think UNIX system calls are standard, better than OS/2. Have you seen some of the names for the system routines for OS/2? It sounds so technical. The system call names are more "friender".. -- -- Robert aka Crimson Avenger (yee@rpi.edu or crimson_avenger@mts.rpi.edu) Once a hacker, always a hacker. (usere3jp@rpitsmts.bitnet)