Re: ZSHELL?????

To: CALC-TI@LISTS.PPP.TI.COM
Subject: Re: ZSHELL?????
From: Garcia <xrigel@Q-NET.NET>
Date: Tue, 22 Jul 1997 11:15:25 -0400
Comments: To: Eli Allen <eallen@MAIL.BCPL.LIB.MD.US>
Reply-To: Garcia <xrigel@Q-NET.NET>
Ouch!

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> From: Eli Allen <eallen@MAIL.BCPL.LIB.MD.US>
> To: CALC-TI@LISTS.PPP.TI.COM
> Subject: Re: ZSHELL?????
> >Nick Zitzmann                             No WWW page at this time.
> >(Resident Macintosh Tweaker)
> >                                          Windows 95:
> >                                          From the people who brought
you
> >                                            EDLIN!
>
> So I assume that You like Macs, right?  So if you like Macs your looking
> forward to Rhapsody.  So here is a reason why your sig is bad (I'm not
> saying Macs are bad, I just don't like them.)
> A short history lesson:
>
> Unix came out from ATT.  This OS had many text editors like ed for a line
> text editor and vi for a full screen text editor.  Neither text editor
had
> an interface and to someone not used to them, had many strange commands.
> many years past.
> MicroSoft released Dos. This had edlin in it which was basically a
> simplified and easier to use version of the Unix text editors.
> many years past. (MicroSoft changed the way they displayed their name to
> Microsoft)
> NeXT was created by Jobs after he left Apple.  NeXT created a OS based on
> Unix. (Basically another copy of Unix with a changed X windows GUI)
> more years past
> Apple bought NeXT.  They then decide to use the Nextstep as the base for
the
> OS (with only a few changes) to replace MacOS 8 and call it Rhapsody.
>
> So as you can see Rhapsody is based off Unix.  So I could say:
>         Rhapsody:
>         From the people who brought you vi
>
> But does that mean Rhapsody is a bad OS?
>
> Just something you should think about before trying to insult another OS.
> Before you insult another OS again you should think of these two things:
> 1.  Remember your history (so someone can't turn around what you said and
> point it back at you like I just did)
> 2.  If the OS really that bad or is it just your preference that makes
you
> think one is better then the other?
>
> It is ok to like an OS but don't insult another OS especially when you
don't
> know much about the other OS or your own.
>
> Eli Allen   eallen@mail.bcpl.lib.md.us
>
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