[geeks] OT Rant: A wish for GUI Telnet

vance at neurotica.com vance at neurotica.com
Fri Jan 31 00:15:16 CST 2003


On Fri, 31 Jan 2003, Dave McGuire wrote:

> On Friday, January 31, 2003, at 12:21 AM, vance at neurotica.com wrote:
> > Yeah.  Unix was designed as an easy-to-use OS.  It's much easier than
> > some
> > of the other stuff that was around at the time.
>
>    It's a shitload easier than most of the other stuff that's around
> *now*.  People say "hard to use" when they actually mean "is different
> from Windows".

But what I mean is that if you compare a UNIX box to a
cards->system->printer OS/VS box, the UNIX box is more user-oriented.

Peace...  Sridhar


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