Not that it matters all that much, but I would suggest the following.
1. UNIX is "developer friendly" - a collection of granular, flexible
tools in an environment that is easily tailored. It can be used to
provide a user-friendly system if one chooses to do so.
2. NT is "available" to the average user - with growing attempts to make
the use of it as intuitive as possible.
Two really different things.
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On Friday, December 12, 1997 1:35 PM, Don Shesnicky
[SMTP:dons @
cadabratech .
com] wrote:
>
> > NT is more user friendly and this one is really a big
> > thing.
>
> Well I was going to try to stay out of this...
>
> You really think NT is more friendly? I look at some of
> the
> stuff in the registry and the blue screen of death and ...
> and
> ... as not being user friendly. And don't say it's more
> friendly
> for users, cause a user facing the blue screen has
> immediately
> been made a sysadmin.
>
> I remember the other night as I was going from NT machine
> to NT
> machine to make printer edits that there was a big
> argument years
> ago about how confusing Unix was and how everyone should
> stick to
> DOS. The other argument made at that time was how Unix
> took too
> much disk space. I think both of those points are pretty
> much
> mute now.
>
> Add to that, 5 years ago you learned DOS, then you learned
> Win 3.1,
> then it was WinNT, now it's Win95. I sat down at my first
> linux
> box a year ago and felt at home within minutes. You don't
> think
> that influences which firewall OS your going to purchase,
> think
> again.
>
> Don
>
> ...we should moderate this list to keep people like me off
> it.
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