From: davidsen@ariel.crd.GE.COM (william E Davidsen) Subject: Re: Yes, the debate continues (Re: ANNOUNCEMENT: Alpha Linux/GNU/X) Date: 1 Dec 1992 20:42:21 GMT
In article <ByHoqy.2I5@mudos.ann-arbor.mi.us>, mju@mudos.ann-arbor.mi.us (Marc Unangst) writes:
| I don't think it's necessarily true that 80% of computer users
| couldn't handle SCO. Give them a reasonably-powered box on their desk
| and let them run X.desktop, and they'll do fine. Just as user-cuddly
| as Windows NT, but with the power of Unix underneath. I'm assuming,
| of course, that you have some kind of administrator to handle
| sysadmin-type tasks, but you'll need one with WinNT too. Or did you
| expect to have a 50-node NT network without an administrator?
Never underestimate the power of good documentation. One member of the
local user's group is has a network of PC run as terminal emulators,
connected to a SCO box, running DOS apps in Merge. He speced the system,
installed the software, tuned it, and set up the backup schedule for a
secretary. Not bad for a 70 year old civil engineer who just wants to
use computers for his work.
As far as I'm concerned, most SCO documentation is dead solid. The
network docs really need a "how to" section for common simple things you
might want to do without diddling ten files in arcane formats, like
using a nameserver, for instance.
Don't believe users can't handle UNIX, that's pure DOS marketing.
--
bill davidsen, GE Corp. R&D Center; Box 8; Schenectady NY 12345
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