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From: alain@elevia.UUCP (W.A.Simon)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next
Subject: Re: NeXT as a vanilla UNIX box (was Re: USENIX Summer 1991...)
Message-ID: <1991Jun17.113150.4890@elevia.UUCP>
Date: 17 Jun 91 11:31:50 GMT
References: <1991Jun13.142906.28474@ni.umd.edu> <1991Jun13.165313.10653@usenet.ins.cwru.edu> <1991Jun13.195238.29697@umbc3.umbc.edu> <4125@ssc-bee.ssc-vax.UUCP>
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In <4125@ssc-bee.ssc-vax.UUCP> dmg@ssc-vax (David M Geary) writes:
>In article <1991Jun13.195238.29697@umbc3.umbc.edu> brian@umbc4.umbc.edu (Brian Cuthie) writes:
>aIn article <1991Jun13.165313.10653@usenet.ins.cwru.edu> davis@po.CWRU.Edu writes:
>>Unix is too complex, even with NeXTstep wrapped around it, for the
>>average dolt to deal with.  Let's face it, most business people are
>>lucky to know where the on/off switch is on their PC.  They are not
>>likely to be able to deal with the sysadmin strangeness that exists
>>even on the NeXT.
>  Are you kidding?  If the average dolt can use DOS, they can use
>  NeXTStep.

	Not really, because DOS was invented to keep dolts away
	from everything else...  All kidding aside, there is a
	resistance in the DOS "power users" community to the
	notion of system administration.  There is also an even
	stronger resistance to the idea of having to become a
	regular user again.  And if you remember well, the DOS
	crowds were putting down the Mac for its mouse, its WYSIWYG,
	its windows, and its icones...  guess what they have now?
	The real issue is a hang up about having an IBM, just like
	the grown ups...  |8-)


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William "Alain" Simon
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