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From: dmmartindale@watcgl.UUCP (Dave Martindale)
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Subject: Re: Teaching UNIX
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Date: Wed, 14-Nov-84 12:51:26 EST
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Posted: Wed Nov 14 12:51:26 1984
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I DO wish that the department of computing services had taken Amdahl up on
its offer and put up UTS for a trial period.  If it is unusable because of
features that are missing, the users will soon figure that out for themselves.
Personally, I consider CMS almost unuseable because of the way unsolicited
terminal input is handled.  I would have liked to compare CMS to UTS.
With respect to vi, does VM/CMS have a good screen editor that runs on
ordinary ASCII terminals?  It didn't seem to last time I used it.

By deciding in advance that UTS was unsuitable, DCS has prevented any
possibility of users deciding that they like it.  I have heard very negative
comments about UTS from people who have used it so I'm willing to believe
it may have many problems but, dammit, what's wrong with letting users decide
for themselves?