APPLEVISION Monitor

From: Richard Erlacher <edick_at_idcomm.com>
Date: Mon May 6 13:38:14 2002

see below, plz.

Dick

----- Original Message -----
From: "Christopher Smith" <csmith_at_amdocs.com>
To: <classiccmp_at_classiccmp.org>
Sent: Monday, May 06, 2002 9:47 AM
Subject: RE: APPLEVISION Monitor


> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Alex White [mailto:meltie_at_myrealbox.com]
>
> > UNIX as a system to use personally is only cheap if you don't
> > value your
> > free time. (well-worn but useful quote.) Disclaimer: I only use stuff
> > that ain't MS at home.
>
> I find this is the case for windows, but not Unix. I have some Unix
> machines at home, which never give me any trouble. I haven't had a
> problem with either system in three years that wasn't a hardware problem.
>
> In other words, they "just work."
>
> The system I've had for longer than three years hasn't given me any
> software problems since I was messing around with experimental drivers,
> and that was my own fault.
>
> I've had hard drives die after years of continuous use (but I keep
> backups...), and I've had the processor cook itself on one system when
> the fan gave out, but again, that's a hardware problem.
>
> Now, if you need a rock-solid system, rather than just a passable one,
> then you can use VMS, but Unix works most of the time, and better than
> windows and MacOS, in my experience. ;)
>
That may be true, though I have questions about the relative usefulness of
*nix, VMS, etc, in the current computing environment. However, until I can
rely on being able to take the typical drug-impaired, femto-brained, at best
quasi-literate, high school graduate and setting him down in front of a *nix
box, when he's never even heard of *nix or VMS or whatever, and reasonably
expect to get at least half-a-day's work out of each day he spends at that
box, beginning with the first day, knowing that he can't read and extract
information from the process, I'll stick with Windows, thank you very much.
Even a moron can manage that under Windows.
>
Received on Mon May 06 2002 - 13:38:14 BST