> Date: Fri, 25 Jul 2003 18:10:51 +0100 Once again, apologies for replying to a thread over a week late. :-|
> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Phil Taylor) > > Did you read the first post of this thread? Three hours spent > fighting with Unix to do something exceedingly simple and > straightforward, resulting in failure. Twenty seconds on MacOS 9 > allowed me to fix it. > > Yes, Unix is supremely flexible and powerful. But if its learning > curve is sufficiently steep to terrify me (I've been using computers > for thirty years) how is the average user expected to cope? A friend of mine once described UNIX as a "brain surgery interface". You can do anything you want if you know what you're doing. If you don't know what you're doing, you can cause a lot of damage without accomplishing anything useful. That same friend described the earlier versions of MacOS as a "hockey glove interface". The gloves severely limit what you can do, but it's just about impossible to hurt yourself. MacOS 10 could therefore be described as "doing brain surgery in hockey gloves". Jeff To subscribe/unsubscribe, point your browser to: http://www.tullochgorm.com/lists.html
