Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site omsvax.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!floyd!harpo!seismo!hao!hplabs!intelca!omsvax!flamer From: flamer@omsvax.UUCP (Jim Trethewey) Newsgroups: net.micro Subject: Re: Unix unter alles - (nf) Message-ID: <812@omsvax.UUCP> Date: Sat, 25-Feb-84 00:50:14 EST Article-I.D.: omsvax.812 Posted: Sat Feb 25 00:50:14 1984 Date-Received: Mon, 20-Feb-84 08:48:53 EST References: <5684@uiucdcs.UUCP> Organization: Intel Corp, Hillsboro, OR Lines: 21 > uiuccsb!grunwald Feb 16 17:53:00 1984 > > However, I think that if you compare UNIX with NOS or OS/360, you'll find > the same problems. Arcane, insane and, at times, profane. I wager that in > those operating environments, a customized interface is used for the end > user (e.g. the teller at your local bank). Saying that UNIX won't fly in > the buisness world because of sh or csh is flatly wrong. I can personally vouch for this. I worked for a year and a half for the State of Oregon, developing programs for non-computer types. Our machine was a CDC Cyber 170/720 running NOS. All our applications were written in COBOL (ugh), and they were of the block-mode transaction screen type. The only exposure the users had to the OS was the login and logout. Inflicting something like NOS even on your friends would be punishable in a court of law. REWIND,*. Side note: I was favorably impressed by the menu driven Unix shell found on the Fortune 32:16. Jim Trethewey, Intel Oregon.