APPLEVISION Monitor, Anything !Windows = Cryptic ?

From: Richard Erlacher <edick_at_idcomm.com>
Date: Mon May 6 17:17:35 2002

I just consider "user-friendly" as being such that you can take an unitiated
but interested party, set them down at the console, and expect them to be able
to do what they want to do without first attending extensive training. I know
Martin Marietta send folks off to Unix school for a couple of weeks,
half-days, but I ducked out of that by going to an HP CAE class in Andover,
MA.

Windows does that, however, and so, apparently does the Mac, though I find it
confusing because it's not what I've grown to know, if not love.

more below ...


Dick

----- Original Message -----
From: "Christopher Smith" <csmith_at_amdocs.com>
To: <classiccmp_at_classiccmp.org>
Sent: Monday, May 06, 2002 3:57 PM
Subject: RE: APPLEVISION Monitor, Anything !Windows = Cryptic ?


> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Richard Erlacher [mailto:edick_at_idcomm.com]
>
> > Maybe someday someone will write a DOSEMU that works like
> > DOS, and a WINE that
> > actually executes Windows App's. That would go a long way to
> > ending the MS
> > monopoly on user-friendly, and make it possible for 3rd-party
> > application
> > developers to get up some applicatons that really work.
>
> Heh -- I'm sure M$ has a monopoly on something, but it certainly
> isn't "user-friendly..." Even if you define user-friendly as
> "acting just like windows," there are a few other things around,
> regrettably, that do that these days.
>
> That aside, though, have you tried Wine recently? It's coming
> along nicely, and DOSEMU looks a lot like DOS to me.
>
> Did you mean to single DOS out as being "user-friendly?" I ask
> because it doesn't strike me as exceptionally so...
>
It wasn't exceptionally so, and, in fact, was somewhat of a pain. It wasn't
easy to learn because I was accustomed to CP/M and it wasn't CP/M. After a
week or two, though, it was liveable.
Received on Mon May 06 2002 - 17:17:35 BST