[SunRescue] Offerings

[Dave McGuire]

On Fri, 13 Aug 1999, Jonathan Eisch wrote:
>When I got my first unix computer (a SparcStation ELC (I think)), I was rather
>afraid of setting it up.  I'd heard stories about how 'complicated' unix was, and
>all that (when most of the people you know are old mac and pc users, one only hears
>biased views).  Anyway, you all know how easy solaris is to set up (stick the cd in
>the cd-rom, turn it on....).
>
>It makes me wonder why people accept PC computers that are so hard to use, and
>maintain.

  Somehow the public has been brainwashed into believing that Windows and
PeeCees are the end-all, be-all of computing.  I've converted dozens of people
by showing them what real computers are capable of...it's a truly great feeling
to have "liberated" someone from Micro$oft Hell.

                        -Dave McGuire