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- From: dave@frackit.UUCP (Dave Ratcliffe)
- Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
- Subject: Re: IS UNIX DEAD?
- Summary: Huh?
- Message-ID: <1775@frackit.UUCP>
- Date: 14 Nov 92 19:06:09 GMT
- References: <Bwsy4E.DJL@undergrad.math.waterloo.edu> <3157@nlsun1.oracle.nl> <1992Nov4.081914.19741@tokyo07.info.com>
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- In article <1992Nov4.081914.19741@tokyo07.info.com>, jimmy@tokyo07.info.com (Jim Gottlieb) writes:
- > In article <BwxLBx.4EE@undergrad.math.waterloo.edu> papresco@undergrad.math.waterloo.edu (Paul Prescod) writes:
- >
- > >Sure, you can trick Unix into being easy, but that's not the point. The
- > >point is that it has to be SOLD layered with easy and hard levels.
- >
- > I agree, and I admit to being a bit of a Unix bigot.
- >
- > I tell someone how wonderful Unix is, so they go out and buy it and are
- > quite disappointed when they log in for the first time and see:
- >
- > $
-
- Then tell them how to set up their .profile or .cshrc or whatever so
- they can get nice warm fuzzy prompts. :)
-
- > (or %). Now when they tried out Unix on my system, their prompt
- > showed them what directory they were in. Why not have a new system
- > come up by default with a mildly interesting prompt (and with a color
- > background on a color screen). First impressions count for much.
-
- Tell that to MicroSoft. After all, the first thing you see there on a
- new install is far from the
-
- PROMPT $P$G
-
- we all would rather see.
-
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