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From: peter@graffiti.UUCP (Peter da Silva)
Newsgroups: net.micro
Subject: Re: Pournelle again
Message-ID: <445@graffiti.UUCP>
Date: Sun, 17-Nov-85 20:24:17 EST
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Posted: Sun Nov 17 20:24:17 1985
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> If Jerry Pournelle has not had much experience with UNIX (as
> stated by Peter da Silva), why does he always say that UNIX
> is not a good choice of an operating system and also complicated

Probably because he believes all the industry (psycho)analysts who
tell him that UNIX is obsolete, etc... etc... etc...

> (O.K., so I'm a UNIX fan)  Indeed UNIX is not much complicated --
> it's just full of features.  The names also stand for things.

Agreed! If all you want to do is the things MS-DOS restricts you to
it's no harder to use, and in fact probably simpler because you
don't have to spend all your time re-organising your disks to make
sure all your WordStar overlays are in the right place.

> But, Jerry Pournelle was ONLY excited for one month with
> his 7300 "Bellerphone", in the October issue.  He has (according
> to himself) stopped using it (in the Noverber issue).

As I read the column he's run into a hardware problem. And he's also
only stated that he's stopped using it as a terminal.
-- 
Name: Peter da Silva
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