🚀 go-pugleaf

Maybe there should be a header for cool heads at a cool group...nah..
wouldn't be nearly so much fun ;-).  But seriously what with the smoke
and flames from the ol' "My Chevy can kick your Ford's butt " I think
a few fundamentals get obscured.  Now I'm not the heavy coder some of
you guys are...I write in no high level languages..just batches and am
struggling to learn Assembler, but I do know a thing or two about
OS's.  First and foremost nobody has ever written a "GOD" OS or even a
DNA OS...I mean one OS that does everything great.  I seriously doubt
it is possible, let alone desirable.  Computers include dumb servos
with instructions in ROM all the way up to TeraFlop monsters that
model weather and war games. It hardly seems  effective or efficient
to use the same code on the wide variation of fairly job-specific
tools that are computers. If all you have are nails, everything starts
looking like a hammer...even screwdrivers.  So it would seem prudent
to choose OSs based on mission, hardly on the sheer number of software
titles available or whether or not it might support future hardware.
   Hard drive space is cheap.  Considering what they do computers are
cheap.  Why not employ multiple systems or at least multiple
partitions for many OSs ?  Most can talk to each other or there
wouldn't be an internet.  
   Talk about this or that OS being dead is rarely true, Hell there
are Commodore and Amiga users groups in most towns.  There are
numerous jobs that are best suited to DOS..it's just faster.  There
are some things that are more suited to GUIs whether a shell like W95
or a true OS like NT.  Linux and Mac are not likely to go away anytime
soon and although it will probably namechange the basic OS of IBMs
OS/2 so often rumored dead has found a strong niche in banking and
other mission critical enterprise systems and will hardly be
abandoned, but will simply evolve.  
  To argue the superiority of one over another is pretty useless.  It
reminds me of the young bull and the old bull...you know..lets run
down and screw one......Nah lets walk down and screw em all. There is
no need to choose.  I stopped using screwdrivers for hammers once I
destroyed a perfectly good screwdriver.  Alternate OSs...Try em you'll
like em.
   Incidentally I was unaware that W95 was a preemptive multitasking
mult-threaded environment.  I thought NT was the only MS product that
could sport that distinction.

Still Warped                                          JIMMY