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On 06/12/2018 06:08 PM, rich hurd WC3T wrote:
> Brownie points if you know what SPOOL meant. Without resorting to
> Google-fu.
>
> I'm still a green-screen guy at heart.  Give me a raised floor and a bunch
> of bus and tag pairs, and I'm in heaven.
>
> On Tue, Jun 12, 2018 at 13:17 Fred Jensen <k6dgw at foothill.net> wrote:
>
>> I've migrated through several OS worlds over the decades.  IBM's
>> universe had a significant amount of acronyms that required careful
>> tongue maneuvers to pronounce ... "DASD" was one of the easiest, as was
>> "ISAM" ["Incredibly Slow Access Method"].  EB-se-dick, a little harder.
>> Eventually, Unix became essential and I grep-ped and glob-bed, and
>> struggled with regular expressions about as much as I had to with
>> partial differential equations.  When I retired, I decided to learn how
>> to read Russian with all the free time I was going to have.  Russian was
>> much easier than Unix.  The free time never materialized.
>>
>> 73,
>>
>> Fred ["Skip"] K6DGW
>> Sparks NV DM09dn
>> Washoe County
>>
>> On 6/11/2018 9:34 PM, Don Wilhelm wrote:
>>> If you are not good at deciphering cryptic messages with geek words,
>>> don't use Linux.
>>> I do wish it were better, but Linux seems to be steeped in "geekdom
>>> language" - if you are not educated in the language, you do not
>>> deserve to be part of our culture.
>>> Until Linux produces plain text language for errors and such messages,
>>> it will not be a major player in the computer operating systems.
>>> Windows has its share of cryptic messages, but at least it is in plain
>>> text and does not often refer to "gobbledygook" that is only
>>> understood by Windows geeks.
>>> I have tried Linux and have been stiffed by questions to the forums
>>> saying essentially "if you don't understand the language, go away".
>>> I am not a computer dummy - I understand DOS, but the Linux language
>>> is a thing unto itself.
>>> Ubuntu and Linux Mint have reduced the Linux install process
>>> difficulty, but have not tackled the cryptic messages that can result.
>>> If you only want to do only email and web surfing, then Linux can work
>>> well for you, but anything else can be daunting with cryptic requests
>>> to enter a nonsensical string of commands for "who knows what results"
>>> and be shamed by the forum geeks who blame you for not understanding
>>> the language.
>>>
>>> 73,
>>> Don W3FPR
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