Rumor has it that Richard Erlacher may have mentioned these words:
>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.
[snip]
Then I guess DEC [Comhaq] Tru64 Unix Version 5 would also fall under that
heading... I sat my rather technophobe wife behind that OS on a DEC 3000
Model 300 Alpha, and she was using it faster & easier than Win95... I went
from 2-3 support calls per day (from her, while I was at work) to maybe 1-2
per month. The DEC finally got a little slow for her tastes, and she needed
office apps (read: staroffice) so I put her behind the wheel of a Compaq
Dual P2-350Mhz running RedSplat 7.2 -- still easier to set up with my
networked color laser (windows still can't find it... :-( ) and it was
still easier for her to cross over to KDE from Tru64 than it was to teach
her the maintenance necessary for Win9x.
Then again, tho; it could just be the teacher... ;-)
"Merch"
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Roger "Merch" Merchberger --- sysadmin, Iceberg Computers
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If at first you don't succeed, nuclear warhead
disarmament should *not* be your first career choice.
Received on Mon May 06 2002 - 17:56:59 BST