Re: Currant Bun

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From: Richard Caley
Date: Fri, 28 Jan 2000 00:00

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In article <VA.00000865.003e0788@one>, Stuart Grant (sg) writes:

>> If you
>> were used to Unix you'd have learned what "daemon" and "grep" meant too.

sg> You could use that argument to promote learning Welsh, which is probably 
sg> about as easy.

The point surely is that demon is certainly no more obscure than TSR,
indeed the metaphore perhaps makes it easier to explain. No one would
claim unix was designed for the consumer market. The fact that it is
making any headway there at all is testemony that Windows is not
designed for the consumer market either (it just pretends so on the box).

Grep is an application name. No more obscure than Excel or
Outlook. 

-- 
Mail me as rjc not spt@cstr.ed.ac.uk		_O_
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From: Richard Caley <spt@cstr.ed.ac.uk>
Subject: Re: Currant Bun
Date: 2000/01/28
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