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In article <3vog0e$652@galaxy.ucr.edu>, jjs@dostoevsky.ucr.edu (Joe Sloan)
wrote:

> In article <rmcassid-0108951704580001@dante.eng.uci.edu>,
> Robert Cassidy <rmcassid@uci.edu> wrote:

> >OK, so it takes two people to *use* a UNIX box. Better?
> 
> hmm... this is getting tedious...
> 
> A unix machine can be used by zero or more persons at any point in time.
> (a unix machine is typically busy running tasks whether there are zero, 
> one, twenty or 500 people actively using it.)
> 
> The bottom line: there is no minimum number of users, and the maximum
> number of simultaneous users is a function of system resources, e.g. 
> CPU power & installed RAM...
> 
> (Why am I explaining the obvious? perhaps there are some simple souls 
> reading this newsgroup to whom these are actually *new* concepts.)

The reason you are explaining this is that to some people, if you are not
using UNIX, you are stupid. Some people are stupid if they don't use UNIX.
But there are so many people that are unable to setup, configure, and
maintain a UNIX box on their own - or see it as a sufficient waste of time
in the face of other options, that from their point of view it does take
*at least* two people just to use the machine - one to set it up and keep
it running and one to actually do somthing on it. If you are fortunate
enough to play both roles, great, many, many people are not.

In other words, we understand all of that - we just want some of the UNIX
people to understand that for most situations, 1 UNIX machine requires at
least 2 people - the individual we are addressing and their user(s).
Remember, most computer users are in no way capable of supporting a UNIX
box and would probably as a result find that the UNIX box produces far
more problems than the unstable Mac or PC (that's why you see so many of
'em)

-- 
Bob Cassidy
UC Irvine