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From: es1@cunixb.cc.columbia.edu (Ethan Solomita)
Subject: Re: Operating Systems
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Date: Thu, 30 May 1991 07:53:16 GMT

In article <870@mixcom.COM> hhxxee@mixcom.COM (C. Richard Miller) writes:
>es1@cunixb.cc.columbia.edu (Ethan Solomita) writes:
>
>>	If I thought the way you did about computers, I'd own
>>nothing but clones. However, I like my computers smart, not
>>brain-dead. For me, the OS is one of the number one reasons I own
>>the machine.
>
>Rey was talking from the perspective of a casual user, and he
>was right.  From that perspective, it is the software that
>runs on the computer that is important, not the nature of the
>operating system itself.  
>
>
	That may have been one of the points of the discussion,
but it began to go beyond that with the followups. It is hard to
tell WHAT an MS-DOS users reaction would be to a "real" operating
system since they've never

A) been exposed to one

or B) been willing to even consider one

	Many people, being currently required to use MS-DOS, have
settled down into their little computer world and aren't
interested in what happens elsewhere. The "casual user" is
probably being required to use a specific system and so his
opinion on computers is irrelevant: it is the person telling him
what he needs who counts.
	Of course, now I'm rambling on into other areas...

>-- 
>Rick Miller                                         hhxxee@mixcom.com
>Milwaukee, Wisconsin                          or hhxxee%mixcom@uunet.uu.net


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