From: utzoo!decvax!duke!mcnc!rlgvax!guy
Newsgroups: net.micro
Title: Re: DEC PRO350
Article-I.D.: rlgvax.1040
Posted: Mon Feb 14 10:15:18 1983
Received: Thu Feb 17 06:03:00 1983


Note that the "official" DEC operating system for the PC350 is P/OS, better
known as "RSX-11M with a menu-oriented shell".  At one point, a long time ago,
I was working on a machine which was a single-user machine running RT-11 and
which was going to become a multi-user machine.  I looked both at RSX-11M and
UNIX (Sixth Edition!), and concluded that UNIX was FAR friendlier to the
novice user.  As such, UNIX with a menu-oriented shell is probably as good
as RSX-11M with a menu-oriented shell for the novice user.  The claim that
UNIX is ONLY good for programmers is a base canard (as opposed to an acid
canard).
					Guy Harris
					RLG Corporation
				(decvax!duke!mcnc!rlgvax!guy)