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- From: papresco@undergrad.math.waterloo.edu (Paul Prescod)
- Subject: Re: IS UNIX DEAD? (long)
- Message-ID: <By5tys.E5x@undergrad.math.waterloo.edu>
- Organization: University of Waterloo
- References: <1992Nov18.133433.21809@ifi.unizh.ch> <1992Nov20.003831.969@global.hacktic.nl> <1992Nov20.150413.9836@ifi.unizh.ch>
- Date: Mon, 23 Nov 1992 08:23:14 GMT
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- >Indeed, it's not framemaker, and it doesn't offer the same things
- >either, but it's far superior to framemaker. That's why the comparison
- >may be ridiculous, but that's just because prices for useless apps like
- >framemaker are THAT high. Maybe you're right, the comparison was just
- >TOO flattering for FrameMaker. But I wanted to compare with something
- >that is available on the same amount of hardware on both sides, which is
- >- as you say - a ridiculous thing to try, because DOS is dead, and UNIX
- >isn't.
-
-
- You are entitled to your opinions about software. Unfortunately the software
- buying public does not agree with you. They pay for framemaker for a reason,
- and if they wanted tex, they could get it. Same with spreadsheets.
- >
- >
- >And you get impressed by the masses.
-
- The masses have masses of dollars. We don't have to do what they do,
- but we should provide what they want.
-
- There is a saying in switzerland
- >that goes: "Eat cow shit, millions of flies can't be wrong". It might
- >scare somebody, but we are experiencing an enormous growth in computer
- >knowledge among our population, so we're just not anymore at a point
- >where computers absolutely HAVE to have an interface with annoying
- >dialog boxes flashing up every other second. These people want
-
- 90% of the population is computer illiterate.
- BTW, PCMag says 35% of all PCs are networked, and that number has
- increased by at least 5% every year for the last four.
-
- >
- >*laugh* You must be joking. WHICH PC network, if you please? I don't see
- >many PC's networking, when you look at the market as a whole, and why is
- >that so?
- >That wasn't my argument, but let me answer to this quickly.
- >NeXTstep has it, OpenWindows has it, OSF/1 has it... even Linux has
- >one. In fact, only DOS users don't have one consistent GUI (windows is a
- >joke, windows NT will be a bad joke, os/2 adds to this variety, a.s.o).
- >
-
- NeXTStep is not X. Besides, Nextstep is only marginally unix. It is
- far superior in interface to unix. DOS users may not have a consistent
- gui, but most PC operating systems you buy COME with a gui, standard,
- boot to the gui, unless you request otherwise, and are cheap.
-
-