[Elecraft] Firmware upgrades using Ubuntu 12.04

[Tony Estep]

On Tue, Jul 10, 2012 at 6:18 AM, Bill Cotter <n4lg at qx.net> wrote:

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> You have expressed what the marketplace confirms...

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Yep. Remember that at one time Unix dominated the workstation market in
finance and other major industries. Sun, IBM and HP all had versions, and
every Wall Street trader's desk had one of their workstations hooked up to
an all-Unix network. When NT version 3 came out, it was buggy and the
machines it ran on were wimpy, but the rush to ditch Unix and switch to NT
swept the street within a year or two. Now none of the three once-dominant
workstation companies are selling those products, and in fact Sun is
defunct. Don's comments may sound unfair to a hard-core Unix person, but
they are a valid reflection of the Unix experience as it affects many
users, and as it obliterated what was once a flourishing component of the
tech industry.

Of course Unix will do the job; that isn't the issue. After all, various
flavors of Unix underlie Mac OS, Android OS, your router, your microwave
oven, your network provider, Google, Facebook, and so forth. The PR problem
that it has had lies not in the power of its kernel or its networking or
file-handling, but rather in the opacity that confounds the user who just
wants to hook up his printer or download a file. An earlier post explaining
why some cryptic gibberish was not, in fact, cryptic, illustrates this
perfectly: "...666 is octal notation for granting permission....." If this
is obvious to you, then Unix is for you. If not, not.

73,
Tony KT0NY







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