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- From: papresco@napier.uwaterloo.ca (Paul Prescod)
- Subject: Re: IS UNIX DEAD? (very long)
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- Date: Mon, 23 Nov 1992 22:56:25 GMT
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- >>But many people don't ever want to learn it,
- >>any more then they want to understand the internal combustion engine. They
- >>just want to flip a switch on their computer and have it boot to a nice
- >>editor, without them having to go through contortions:
- >
- >Then buy a Mac. Why bother with UNIX.
- >If all you want is a nice editor/spreadsheet, why not buy a Mac.
- >It's a nice simple machine.
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- Fine, if you think that that's all Unix is capable of being, forever in
- the shadow of the mac and PC. I think it's good enough to be the #1
- operating system, but not without some changes.
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- >What standard editor ? Like somebody (Ade ?) pointed out editor is a like a
- >religion. Should we install "joe" (a nice editor too), pico, cr, fpted,
- >emacs, textedit, xedit, point,... The list goes on and on.
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- So include one really, really easy editor, one really, really powerful
- editor, and instructions on how to ftp anything in between. Pretty
- simple, isn't it!
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