Re: Linux is as buggy as Windows

From: David W. Hodgins (dhodgin1661_at_rogers.invalid)
Date: 09/27/03


Date: Fri, 26 Sep 2003 22:41:02 GMT

On Fri, 26 Sep 2003 11:06:28 -0700, Dave <shuvit@127.0.0.1> wrote:

> This reminds me of the reaction we got from the MIS ( IBM 360 ) staff when
> we tried to introduce Unix at a universtiy in 1979. They showed me an
> article in "Datamation" ( I'm not sure of the title). It was a cover story
> with a cartoon on the front cover, showing the "Road to Unix", marked with
> signs reading "grep", "awk", etc. - the point being Unix is unusable because
> the commands are not in English!
> These people live in a different world!

Things like, JCL, IEBGENER, and IDCAMS, are English?

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