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Subject: Re: Historic Opportunity facing Free Unix (was Re: The Lai/Baker paper, benchmarks, and the world of free UNIX)
Date: 12 Apr 1996 18:37:01 -0700
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In article <NELSON.96Apr12112334@ns.crynwr.com>, Russell Nelson wrote:
>In article <yfglok14n5r.fsf@time.cdrom.com> jkh@time.cdrom.com (Jordan K. Hubbard) writes:
{both of them said lots of good stuff. you could look it up.}
Russ, Windows 95 is a monstrosity. The *only* thing that amazes me about it
is that Microsoft isn't releasing Windows 1Q '96, Windows March 96, Windows
This Tuesday, etc. But it's a <bad product>. (Although I have heard, with
all PnP equipment and all W95 apps, it's not too bad. Wouldn't know,
myself. Have lots of legacy hard- and software that I *need*.) Un*x isn't
a bad product, but the install and learning curves are just so steep that
the spoonfed user of the '90s (or '95s?) will not deal with it well. I do
not know how to streamline these processes without sacrificing the
astounding flexibility that Un*x offers. I wish I did; then I would own the
world. It seems to me that the computing world is forking at this point:
those who know little about computers and like it that way are W95 oriented.
Those of us who like using the computer for more than office work and games
are Linux oriented. So be it. Can you bridge the gap? Fame and riches
await....
yrs,
shaniac