🚀 go-pugleaf

In article <35F3AD13.F67EBE68@pacbell.net>, Ken  <tylereng@pacbell.net> wrote:
>Quentin Christensen wrote:
>
>> hmmm, I don't think is any more silly than m$ claiming win95 is an
>> OS...  (if you want to argue that one, DOS 7 is the OS, win95 sits on
>> top the way win3.1 did, only it's more annoying to go between dos and
>> windows than with 3.1)  basically windows is a program launcher, with a
>> (pretty?) gui interface.  Can you tell me what win95 does then apart
>> from launch programs?
>>
>> Quentin
>
>About the only advantage I can think of that Win 95 offers programmers
>and end users alike, besides the pretty program lucnching interface, is it's
>use of the .dll shared libraries. This gives programmers the luxury of not
>having to write extra code into their routines and saves on disk space
>since other programs can call the same .dll file. It's a modular programming
>system that offers a lot of attraction and ease of use. There may be other
>bennefits I may not be aware of, an not being a programmer, but you
>might just want to cut it a little slack until you can offer a better
>alternative.

<aware of drifting dangerously off target....>
SWITCH ASBESTOS

an alternative is available, and it is: GNU/Linux.
you can have a powerful text console, which supports redirects &c. (unlike
DOS 7), is very stable (look at pick's uptime), and the GUI (X windows)
like the rest of the system is extremely configurable (see enlightenment
for example).

Therefore W9* deserves no slack whatsover, and you won't find it
cluttering up my systems.

SWITCH NOASBESTOS

HTH,

Matthew


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