Jerry Feldman wrote:
For many years it was said that the single most thing that held Unix back was the lack of a decent editor, simply they were all supremely lousy. I've never heard that before. Since I first used Unix 25 years ago, I found a number of decent editors, including vi and EMACS, but... I don't think the lack of a decent editor ever help Unix back. The main
On Saturday 12 November 2005 9:35 pm, Sid Boyce wrote: thing that held it back was the AT&T pricing. While a 2-user license was fairly low, it was still expensive, and the muti-user licenses were very expensive. There were a few PC based Unixes in then 1980s (including SCO (classic)). But another thing that held it back was the lack of a good GUI, and we now have them.
Unix pricing was still way below anything you could get from IBM. SCO was beginning to gain in popularity, though a bit pricy for Joe user. The fledgling Coherent looked very promising as Joe user's Unix until Linux changed the landscape. At that time, the GUI was not all that important, but what was there for Solaris and SGI seemed appealing. The editors were a constant complaint, people used them, but they were never satisfactory. Regards Sid. -- Sid Boyce ... Hamradio License G3VBV, licensed Private Pilot Retired IBM/Amdahl Mainframes and Sun/Fujitsu Servers Tech Support Specialist Microsoft Windows Free Zone - Linux used for all Computing Tasks