CompuServe Messages

The only thing I need to know for this thesis, is that there are more MSDOS machines than Unix machines, and things are likely to stay that way. If I was looking to get into a Unix machine (I'm not, thanks), I'd be all over them busy as can be. But *my* point was simply that the statement Unix is the OS of the decade and the coming century is wrong. I've been able to make the point repeatedly, without any contentions that needed serious consideration. I started out by saying I don't like it, but I'm entitled. I also said (repeatedly) that it's more powerful than MSDOS and even better. None of which changes my point, which is it's not going to take over the market, and in fact, hasn't a chance in heck of doing so. You see things from one of the tops of the heap in the Unix world. I see them from a small hill of the Amiga world, and the few (say 50 or so) businesses I know here in town (of which you can count a lot more than 50 PC's, and NO unix machines – I've been 'round asking in the last day or so, as this has been on my mind). The hospital does have that one doing payroll, as I mentioned previously. The MSDOS user sees things from anywhere but Unix. I don't see it chaninging. If, and it's a big if, Unix takes over, it has far, far to go before anyone notices it in your average business. We're not talking the one or two plants per 5k people, we're talking the several HUNDRED businesses per 5k people. –Ben