Tony, Reminds me of OSX. I was a devotee until MS pulled the plug on DOS.
73, Bill K9YEQ -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Tony Estep Sent: Tuesday, July 10, 2012 9:48 AM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [Elecraft] Firmware upgrades using Ubuntu 12.04 On Tue, Jul 10, 2012 at 6:18 AM, Bill Cotter <[email protected]> wrote: > > You have expressed what the marketplace confirms... =========== Yep. Remember that at one time Unix dominated the workstation market in finance and other major industries. Sun, IBM and HP all had versions, and every Wall Street trader's desk had one of their workstations hooked up to an all-Unix network. When NT version 3 came out, it was buggy and the machines it ran on were wimpy, but the rush to ditch Unix and switch to NT swept the street within a year or two. Now none of the three once-dominant workstation companies are selling those products, and in fact Sun is defunct. Don's comments may sound unfair to a hard-core Unix person, but they are a valid reflection of the Unix experience as it affects many users, and as it obliterated what was once a flourishing component of the tech industry. Of course Unix will do the job; that isn't the issue. After all, various flavors of Unix underlie Mac OS, Android OS, your router, your microwave oven, your network provider, Google, Facebook, and so forth. The PR problem that it has had lies not in the power of its kernel or its networking or file-handling, but rather in the opacity that confounds the user who just wants to hook up his printer or download a file. An earlier post explaining why some cryptic gibberish was not, in fact, cryptic, illustrates this perfectly: "...666 is octal notation for granting permission....." If this is obvious to you, then Unix is for you. If not, not. 73, Tony KT0NY -- http://www.isb.edu/faculty/facultydir.aspx?ddlFaculty=352 ______________________________________________________________ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:[email protected] This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html ______________________________________________________________ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:[email protected] This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html
