APPLEVISION Monitor

From: Richard Erlacher <edick_at_idcomm.com>
Date: Mon May 6 14:52:33 2002

see below, plz.

Dick

----- Original Message -----
From: "Christopher Smith" <csmith_at_amdocs.com>
To: <classiccmp_at_classiccmp.org>
Sent: Monday, May 06, 2002 1:10 PM
Subject: RE: APPLEVISION Monitor


> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Richard Erlacher [mailto:edick_at_idcomm.com]
>
> > > 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. ;)
>
> > 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.
>
> Well, let's first dispense with the next argument, which would
> be that any system can be "easy to use" if you configure it
> well. Let's assume that we're talking about an out-of-the-box
> system.
>
If you configure *nix well, it's still cyptic and impenetrable to the
uninitiated.
>
> What you want, then, is Apple's Newton OS, or PalmOS ;) Anything
> that one can do with an out-of-the-box windows can also be done
> there with much less trouble. It's the closest thing to "idiot
> proof" I've seen. Software availability is the killer, there,
> though.
>
> Honestly, though, if you'd like a system that a monkey can use,
> it must only do things which a monkey would like to do. ;)
>
> Chris
>

That's a point that's difficult to dispute.
Received on Mon May 06 2002 - 14:52:33 BST