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From: flamer@omsvax.UUCP (Jim Trethewey)
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Subject: Re: Unix unter alles - (nf)
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Date: Sat, 25-Feb-84 00:50:14 EST
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Posted: Sat Feb 25 00:50:14 1984
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> 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.