On 01/08/15 22:55, JHY wrote:


"bert" wrote in message
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On 31/07/2015 13:16, bert wrote:

The big plus about UNIX (where every command looks like a mis-type) is
that the operating system is essentially invisible to the end user.
Well
it was designed by a telephone company.

That's true of windows and other OSes.
You can run applications and never see the OS if you want to.
An example is a cash machine, you don't see the windows or other OS
unless there is a fault.

How long can you run a Windows system without coming up against the
operating system?

Depends on what you want to do with it.

It's better than it was with W8 but at the time Unix came out it was
unavoidable. We had an early unix server in the office. It just sat in
the corner and ran - just like the pabx.

And later than that with a Win system you could just plug your
memory stick into the Win system and have it visible auto and
wouldn't have been able to do that with the Unix system.

straw man. Unix systems were at that time built for a different purpose.
wouldnt have been able to plug a 64 port serial card into your windows
machine and have it just work, either.


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