Path: utzoo!utgpu!watmath!iuvax!bobmon
From: bobmon@iuvax.cs.indiana.edu (RAMontante)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: Microsoft, OS/2, and UNIX
Message-ID: <19206@iuvax.cs.indiana.edu>
Date: 4 Apr 89 04:05:07 GMT
Reply-To: bobmon@iuvax.cs.indiana.edu (RAMontante)
Organization: malkaryotic
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Despite being a UNIX lover and MSDOS hater, I can't resist a couple of
responses to the following:

afscian@violet.waterloo.edu (Anthony Scian) <13002@watdragon.waterloo.edu> :
-	[ ... ]
-People do not want PCs to be dedicated word processors or 1-2-3 engines,
-anymore. Integration with existing mainframe/mini computers is mandatory.

SOME people.  I know some who want it to be exactly a dedicated word
processor.  Even making it run 1-2-3 as well confuses them.

->Without a shell, UNIX is far too much for the average end user
-Hmmm, with your logic MS-DOS is too much for the average user.

Depending on the "average user", MSDOS  IS  too much.  Why do you think
packages like Wordperfect have disk-formatting and directory-changing
options built in?  Because many (most?) of their users can't really handle
doing things like this from the command line.  It's scary, it really is.

...that said...
I object to OS/2 partly because it doesn't really try to do anything
different from what Unix does, it just does some of the same things in
cripplingly inferior ways.  Some two decades after Unix opened up a lot of
new territory, Microsoft is still trying to stretch out CP/M.