6 May
2002
6 May
'02
10:56 a.m.
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"
--
Roger "Merch" Merchberger --- sysadmin, Iceberg Computers
Recycling is good, right??? Ok, so I'll recycle an old .sig.
If at first you don't succeed, nuclear warhead
disarmament should *not* be your first career choice.