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[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Marc Oestreicher
Sent: Thursday, May 29, 2003 8:20 AM
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Wow it's almost like we live in different worlds but I suppose
that in some regards we do.
Marc
People that use linux tend not to be of the "norm." I have been following
linux since 1999 and have watched redhat and mandrake evolve. I have tried
many different distros.
When most people get on a computer, they want it to work the first time,
every time. They do not want to have to think about what they are doing. "If
it doesn't work, re-boot, that will fix it." My first taste with computers
was in 1976 when I was 17. I worked in a government computer room,
babysitting a Honeywell 700 mainframe. In 1979, I bought a radio shack
TRS-80 model 1. I actually used a TRS-model 4D until 1993 because it did
everything I needed it to do. I bought a pacard bell computer that had Dos
5.0 in it and windows 3.0 I had a huge hard drive (245 megs). I taught
myself Dos because it wasn't too unlike trs-dos. Most people today have no
idea what it was like a few years ago with computers. Command line stuff is
like a foreign language to them and they don't want to take the time to find
out and that is why windows have the advantage. IMOHO
Walt
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