6 May
2002
6 May
'02
10:17 a.m.
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(a)amdocs.com>
To: <classiccmp(a)classiccmp.org>
Sent: Monday, May 06, 2002 3:57 PM
Subject: RE: APPLEVISION Monitor, Anything !Windows = Cryptic ?
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.
-----Original
Message-----
From: Richard Erlacher [mailto:edick@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...