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From: rsa@swindon.gpsemi.com (Richard Sabey)
Subject: Re: Retro-Computing!
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References: <D5yxwn.5BG@sdf.saomai.org> <BILLW.95Mar26154351@glare.cisco.com> <3ledga$rcr@news2.delphi.com> <Pine.NXT.3.92.950330155824.2916A-100000@Tomobiki-Cho.CAC.Washington.EDU>
Date: Fri, 7 Apr 1995 12:54:38 GMT
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In article <Pine.NXT.3.92.950330155824.2916A-100000@Tomobiki-Cho.CAC.Washington.EDU>, Mark Crispin <mrc@CAC.Washington.EDU> writes:
|> On 30 Mar 1995, THUNDERONE@DELPHI.COM wrote:
|> > Modern Operating Systems attempt to adapt to the human's needs.  Old 
|> > Operating Systems require the human to adapt to them.
|> 
|> Except for the "modern" operating system UNIX, which requires the user to 
|> adapt to it (with such obvious commands as "cat", "grep", and "awk"), and 
|> the "old" operating system TOPS-20, which adapted to the human's need.

How old must an OS be for you to regard it as "old"? I regard Unix as old.
And its unfriendliness which Mark exemplified bears out the other poster's
point.

Some more "obvious" commands: mv for rename, rm for delete, ls (which
stands for "list sectors") for
directory ... now over to you.
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