I have a colleague in my dept., an organic chemist, who went to MIT in the late 80's. At that time their main computer system was the Unix-based Athena system, which was pretty hot stuff back then. When I asked her about it early one she told me she never used it. I was stunned. She told me "no one ever took the time to explain any of it to me, even in my computer course".
On Tue, Jan 4, 2011 at 12:40 AM, Boris Liberman <[email protected]> wrote: > As a well known folk saying goes: Unix is very user friendly, it is just as > selective about who its friends are... > > On 1/4/2011 1:32 AM, Keith Whaley wrote: >> >> Larry Colen wrote: >> >> [...] >> >>> Despite all of the annoyances, macs are pretty good systems, especially >>> since for most things, if the gui is too confusing, you can always open >>> up a terminal and get to the intuitive command line. >> >> Boy, I've heard the terminal called a lot of things, but...never THAT! :-) >> >> To clarify ~ it was the word "intuitive" that threw me... >> >> keith whaley >> >>> -- Larry Colen [email protected] sent from i4est >> > > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > [email protected] > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and > follow the directions. > -- Steve Desjardins -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
