Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!mnetor!seismo!brl-adm!brl-smoke!smoke!Per_Lindberg_QZ%QZCOM.MAILNET@MIT-MULTICS.arpa From: Per_Lindberg_QZ%QZCOM.MAILNET@MIT-MULTICS.arpa Newsgroups: net.unix-wizards Subject: Unix dead??? Message-ID: <3149@brl-smoke.ARPA> Date: Mon, 18-Aug-86 17:43:21 EDT Article-I.D.: brl-smok.3149 Posted: Mon Aug 18 17:43:21 1986 Date-Received: Wed, 20-Aug-86 22:44:58 EDT Sender: news@brl-smoke.ARPA Lines: 18 Well, he's good at humourous writing, no doubt. That was really funny! Although some of the laughs was on the writer... UNIX dead!? Well, in that case someone forgot to tell it so, because it hasn't stopped moving yet. And what about slow menu-oriented operating systems? I recall some unmentionable horror called P/OS which runs on the DEC Professional. It took only half a day for it to drive me crazy. And don't tell me you can put THAT in front of a naive user and expect him to be off on his own. (I have TEACHED univeristy-level engineering students (most of them with a Ph.D.) on how to use P/OS, and they had a hell of a time getting the knack of it. I have also been teaching C programming under UNIX, and that didn't cause any troubles at all). Enuff of this for now; I'm not going to waste any more time rebutting fools. If they prefer VMS (or was that MVS?), fine. Good luck.