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- From: peter@global.hacktic.nl (Peter Busser)
- Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
- Subject: Re: IS UNIX DEAD?
- Message-ID: <1992Nov22.151943.1100@global.hacktic.nl>
- Date: Sun, 22 Nov 1992 15:19:43 GMT
- References: <1992Nov12.005025.1251@global.hacktic.nl> <BxntrG.ECD@ccu.umanitoba.ca> <Bxw4JJ.HzC@undergrad.math.waterloo.edu> <By2Myx.89p@unix.amherst.edu>
- Organization: Global Village 1
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- twpierce@unix.amherst.edu (Tim Pierce) writes:
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- >In article <Bxw4JJ.HzC@undergrad.math.waterloo.edu> papresco@undergrad.math.waterloo.edu (Paul Prescod) writes:
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- >>....OS/2, Windows, DOS etc. have PROVED that you don't
- >>have to be a system administrator to install an OS.
-
- >That's not true. They've proved that you don't have to be a system
- >administrator to install OS/2, Windows, or DOS. The fact that some
- >operating systems install easily doesn't mean that they all can or
- >should.
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- Why can one system be easy while another can't? I don't see a reason (mind you,
- we're talking about low-end systems targeted for the user market). I can see
- that it is acceptable that an operating system for a large computer is hard to
- install. But in general, I can't see any technical reason why installation
- should be hard.
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