Re: Yet another crash!

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From: Keith Laws
Date: Thu, 10 Feb 2000 00:00

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In article <m2aelcwxg9.fsf@barnowl.demon.co.uk>, Graham Murray
<graham@barnowl.demon.co.uk> writes
>In uk.comp.os.linux, Bruce Richardson <itsbruce@netscape.net> writes:
>
>> And quite failing to understand how alien the command prompt can look to
>> a whole new generation of computer users who've never even seen a DOS
>> prompt, let alone a Unix shell.
>
>How long is a generation?
>
>It is now 2000, so Win95 cannot have been around for more than 5 years
>(I can't remember when it was released, but would not be surprised if
>it were closer to 4 than 5 years ago.) Prior to that, how many people
>used Win3.x without ever using a DOS/command prompt? 

Before I got my PC I had a Mac (1991) never used a command line on that.
Then before that I used my dad's Atari 520ST for 5 years or so, never
used a command line on that either. Last time I had a computer that
forced you to use a command line it was a BBC B

GUI's have easily been around for a generation (20 years I think is a
generation) Maybe you haven't used them for that long, but others have.
-- 
Keith Laws

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From: Keith Laws <keith@keithlaws.co.uk>
Subject: Re: Yet another crash!
Date: 2000/02/10
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