Re: Yet another crash!

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From: Graham Murray
Date: Mon, 07 Feb 2000 00:00

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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? 

Of course, even longer ago in the days when the "computer" on the desk
was a dumb terminal connected to the mainframe/mini, the *user* only
ever saw the application screens. They had no access at all to the
underlying operating system.

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From: Graham Murray <graham@barnowl.demon.co.uk>
Subject: Re: Yet another crash!
Date: 2000/02/07
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