Oxford says Apple's OS X is a Linux distro 3233

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Nothing hard about it. Just doesn't have the features that vi has.

Barking up the wrong tree there.

Nope. The majority will document the code internally with the use of comment statements.

Actually, the only editor in VMS that I was using was EDIT based on EVE. It did everything and was very versatile and powerful. You didn't need anything else and I've never seen a better one since.

I don't see them chiming in either.

You mean that this didn't bother you that you got trully lied to by Apple-IBM? If I'd have known this at the time of deciding which product to go with, I'd have taken the more expensive route and purchase the Sun 1500 with their sparc IIIi.

By your posts about the GUI vs the CLI posts.

Go reread your posts to Jim Richardson. I'm sure you can find your way back.

Not with what I've seen here. I really don't know how she got that email addy so screwed up, but I had to explore to discover how to delete it from the email program.

Are you sure?

But in what format do you need to the CD?

Some programs like ISOs need to be in image format. Also, Rewritable CDs won't make bootable CDs for some strange reason. You have to use the write once variety.

Well, they need something a bit obvious. Now take the VMS BACKUP command. The options are in english, so it isn't hard to comprehend which ones to use. BACKUP-SINCE=YESTERDAY or BACKUP-SINCE=some date MUA0: (A tape drive) Some options aren't obvious, like IGNOREINTERLOCK which is why there is documentation that explains why. But in essence the DCL (device command language) is almost english or verbose by nature.

A good GUI panel with check marks for what you want or not want, and a selection of user accounts, files, or the whole hard drive. Rotating save sets would be an time saving tool in business in that it doesn't take much time to only backup what had actually changed since the day before. A master backup of the hard drive that can span multiple DVDs would also be valuable. But I don't see this yet.

No, just my memory of the post is all. He also mentioned the need for a true appliance PC for those that don't really want to get involved with the details.

-- Where are we going? And why am I in this handbasket?