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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.rmit.EDU.AU!news.unimelb.EDU.AU!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!feed1.news.erols.com!news-xfer.netaxs.com!ddsw1!news.mcs.net!ddsw1!not-for-mail From: maney@MCS.COM (Martin J. Maney) Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.misc,comp.os.linux.networking,comp.os.linux.setup,comp.unix.bsd.bsdi.misc,comp.unix.bsd.misc,comp.os.ms-windows.nt.advocacy,comp.os.os2.advocacy Subject: Re: Betting on Unix Date: 5 Feb 1997 10:09:40 -0600 Organization: MCSNet, Chicagoland's finest Internet Service Provider 312-803-6271 Lines: 13 Message-ID: <5dabc4$mkm$1@Venus.mcs.net> References: <5d3sr2$44n@nntp1.best.com> <E50rGo.K3n@nonexistent.com> <nLVF2tL@quack.kfu.com> <5d85f5$9k2@qnx.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: venus.mcs.com X-Newsreader: TIN [UNIX 1.3 unoff BETA release 961022] Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.os.linux.misc:156401 comp.os.linux.networking:67411 comp.os.linux.setup:95683 comp.unix.bsd.bsdi.misc:5885 comp.unix.bsd.misc:2282 comp.os.ms-windows.nt.advocacy:52002 comp.os.os2.advocacy:265931 In comp.os.linux.setup Doug Santry <doug@qnx.com> wrote: > Here I think you are dead wrong. Unix doesn't want to be on your > secretary's desk, nor in every den in the world. It is for serious > programming projects/research. It doesn't want, not is it well > suited for, day to day office typing. Ah, history can be so amusing sometimes! Day to day office typing was, in fact, the very first real world application of Unix according to the accounts I've read, and was rather important in getting a little bit of funding for hardware from management (for example, in an article in the famous "Unix issue" of the BLTJ, but it's been retold more than a few times over the years).