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From: ajai@ffast.ffast.att.com (Ajai Khattri)
Subject: Re: Retro-Computing!
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In article <3m9eta$6rd@spang.camosun.bc.ca>,
Deryk Barker <dbarker@camosun.bc.ca> wrote:
>
>Sorry but if you'd ever worked on Multics you wouldn't say that. I can
>recall severall occasions where we would think 'there must be a
>command to do that' and from there to 'if so then it must be called
>...' was but a short step and almost invariably we would find that the
>command was indeed called by what was its logical name.

But the point is that THAT is different for different people!
Its very subjective. Thus you cannot conclude that Unix is better or worse.

>Unix is surely the only OS whose forgetting curve is steeper than its
>learning curve.

Only if you don't use it on a daily basis. (Practice makes perfect).
Or your memory is failing...


Aj.
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