6 May
2002
6 May
'02
7:10 a.m.
-----Original Message-----
From: Richard Erlacher [mailto:edick@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.
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
Christopher Smith, Perl Developer
Amdocs - Champaign, IL
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