Multiple program instances or multiple log ins? -- the "retention curve"

[rgm at htt-consult.com (Robert Moskowitz)]

At 02:02 PM 12/28/2005, Bryan J. Smith wrote:
>"William A. Mahaffey III" <wam@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > Preach it *LOUD*, brother :-) !!!!
>
>I call this the "retention curve."
>
>People complain that UNIX has a poor "learning curve."  I
>always complain that Microsoft products have a poor
>"retention curve" of 5-10 years maximum.

And I have to go back and retrieve 10+ year old learning.

I still get a chuckle remembering when we were 'learning' PING (gee, 
I already had Interop's Advanced TCP/IP class and Comer's vol II) and 
I figured the IP address of our terminal server and I gave it the 
PING of Death and we got a 15 minute class break while they tried to 
determine why the terminals all locked up.  Yes PING of Death was 
around LONG before M$ got slamed with it.

But how to use VI?  I have to pull out my book on that!  Thank you GEDIT.