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From: yee@aix01.aix.rpi.edu (Crimson Avenger)
Subject: Re: (Sigh) Here we go again...
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Date: 8 May 91 03:46:33 GMT
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ARGG!! Unix and OS/2 are TWO seperate products for different marketing 
stragety.  Unix came first and is now running on a host of machines from 
mainframes to micro-computers, while OS/2 is MAINLY for the IBM PC and clone
family.  You can't run OS/2 on a VAX or some other mini-computer.  Even 
IBM is recognizing the fact with the popularity of UNIX that it has AIX for
370 mainframes all the way down to RISC 6000, and to IBM PCs.  You can run
Unix on the PC.  Which do I prefer?  I have seen Unix and I like it very much.
I tend to think OS/2 with the Presentation Manager is sort of like Windows
which I run.  Somebody had the idea of the PM being the main selling point
for OS/2 was wrong.  Let's really look at the question of GUI:

Who is GUI really for?  I grew up learning to use the command line and 
anything you can do for a GUI, you can do with a command line.  GUI is really
an end-user product for someone who don't want to learn how to use the 
computer.  It's just point and click thing.  I prefer that we go back to 
command line rather than just point and shoot.  Why?  It would force people
to learn about the computer and become more computer literate.  

I vote we scrap the PM, Apple's System 7, X11, and other GUIs.. make the 
user learn about the computer.  Any seconds?

p.s. I think UNIX system calls are standard, better than OS/2.  Have you seen
some of the names for the system routines for OS/2?  <eek!!!!>  It sounds 
so technical.  The system call names are more "friender".. <ehh>

 

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-- Robert aka Crimson Avenger      (yee@rpi.edu or crimson_avenger@mts.rpi.edu)
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