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To: Scott C. Lemon who wrote (19502)	1/9/1998 10:51:00 AM
From: Paul Fiondella	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 42771

About your post to VK, I think he has some points worth listening to I did an autoinstall of 4.11. IT couldn't find my Iomega IDE Zip drive. NT had no problems with this when the hard drive was a SCSI. It couldn't deal with it however when the hard drive was IDE but that's unlikely to be the case if a server system was bought by the customer. VK's point about flashiness is well taken. When my 4.11 install finishes I have to go to the manual and figure out the command line commands to use to proceed. When I go to the NT system it gives me a familiar graphical user interface and prompts me through the process (to some extent) MSFT understands its important to add flash to what you are doing. I mean why do you think people go to the movies. They want to be entertained to some extent. Not everything has to be work. You can inform people using visuals and sometimes faster. I frankly don't understand why you guys didn't have somebody just do a graphics look and feel. Base it on DOS. That's even simpler to do. An even better thing to do would be to make the thing look like a HTML page. People are getting used to the browser interface, reinforce that. THese are simple things that anyone in the PC world understands. Look I used Teco. I know what command line OS's are all about. But the message you send out isn't going to appeal to people that grew up on a visual interface. THe message they get is "plumbing". You have to make "plumbing" exciting. Even the builders I know like to use 3D design programs to construct houses before they build them. There is so much graphics potential that you guys don't use to present your products.