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In article <nevin-2203960055140001@mac-nevin.cs.arizona.edu>, nevin@CS.Arizona.EDU (Nevin ":-]" Liber) writes:
>In article <4iqej3$t49@taco.cc.ncsu.edu>, rkswamy@unity.ncsu.edu (Ravi K.
>Swamy) wrote:
>
>> Wow, I've never set any process limit and used Netscape extensively last
>> summer.  Of course it was version 1.x.
>
>I thought that you only run lynx??

No, I only run lynx when I'm at home dialed in through my modem.
I don't see the point in paying $30 a month for PPP when the
dumb terminal connection suits me fine for what I want to do
remotely.

>> Of course they do.  They're written by people who care more about the
>> underlying OS than its interface and ease of use.
>
>Like you said, it's written by people who don't give a damn about the
>people who actually have to use their products.

Right, more or less.  Some researchers working on an OS are definitely
not going to spend much time with the interface details.  UNIX/BSD
came out of these kinds of places therefore you get the interface
that you hate so much.  I'm more like the researchers and when I write
programs they are usually for me, not someone else.  I don't mind
having 15 different command line options.  I write my programs that
way and that's part of the reason I like UNIX.

I do think it's sad that they shoved these research OS's into the
rest of the world without taking the rough edges off, but I'd much
rather have some rough edges than something "easy to use" (I've
never really found them easy to use, but hey...) which crashes
more than once a month.

>> I've never understood the smiley in your name.  For someone with a smiley
>> you should be more happy.
>
>I'm very happy.  Every time I read an article by a Unix troll, it
>reenforces the point that I made the right decision in abandoning Unix and
>going with a Macintosh.

All I have to do is go back to my old office and listen to a Mac
rebooting and I'm happy that I'm using Solaris and Linux.

Ravi
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