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Richard Layman  wrote in vain:

> Trying to head off a Unix vs. Windows vs. Mac debate......

Forget it, you just added fuel to the fire.

> 
> There's no question that a _robust_ distributed, internetworked computing 
> environment comparable to the Internet could not have been created 
> without something like Unix, at least today.  I can't imagine today's 
> environment of 5,000,000 Internet hosts running on some variety of System 
> 7.x or DOS or especially Windows.....  Imagine running the phone system 
> on Windows....?  I can't.  (Note: I am not technically trained.)
> 
> It's true that the GUI makes the Web sing, but that's not "Windows."
> 

Maybe not now, but it's going to be.

Here's why it has to work that way, especially for the 
cyber-populists (cyber-pops?) among us.

If you accept the idea that Windows will be the most widespread 
browser platform, ask yourself when it starts making sense that the 
most widespread server platform should be different. If all the volk 
are running Windows, why force them to install and learn a second 
operating system and all its applications in order to publish?

The power of the press resides with the guy who owns the press. The 
two classes you need to worry about - the infohaves and infohavenots 
- won't be read/not-read; they'll be publish/not-publish.

dw

        Donovan White

        Online Information Development and Design

        dwhite@iii.net           DonovanWhite@ichange.com

        (508) 597-5321           (508) 597-3285

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