On Thu, May 17, 2001 at 06:10:07PM -0400, Joe Griffo wrote:
> >
> > The SGI user environment people had a stereotypical user they liked to
> > design for called the UIBP, or Unix-Illiterate Bright Professional.
> > Somebody who's smart, skilled, and entirely uninterested in learning
> > Unix arcana.
> >
>
>
> This sounds a lot like the concept behind OS X, except for the
> necessity of smart/skilled. I, personally, love the idea of OS X, and I
> really wish I had a mac/osX combo to play with. What do you all think
> will be the outcome of mac's (re)foray into *nix?
>
Depends how Unix-like it is, how Unix-like it stays, how Apple
markets its Unix-likeness, and how much of the BSD spirit remains
in the liscensing. Overall, I think it will be good. If nothing
else, it can give people a glimpse of UNIX.
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