Re: Currant Bun

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From: Richard Caley
Date: Wed, 19 Jan 2000 00:00

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In article <b4nb8soj0tk9k1ieb5utr3o9umalmv4cd9@4ax.com>, Guy Fawkes (gf) writes:

>> Perhaps the most disasterous thing Gates and Co have done is to spread
>> this ludicrous idea that it is acceptable for an OS to crash.

gf> judging from your email you are at an academic institution.

gf> I sincerely hope you are reading needlework or domestic science.

You never did an OS course did you? 

First time I owned a machine with a MS (supposed) OS on it (DOS and
Win 3.1) it occured to me that of the list of things an OS was
supposed to do I remembered from the mists of time from the first
lecture of my OS course, what was in front of me did none of them.

Now, that wasn't so bad. Other than marketing DOS never pretended to
be anything but a boot loader and Win3 nothing but a UI package. 

What was really painful was MS's attempt to take a leap into 1960s
technology with Win95. It pretends to do some of them.

Almost as bad was their eventual convertion to networking. An OS
which claims to be network savvy but where I can only use the machine
if I am actually there sitting in front of it? They're having a
laugh. 

-- 
Mail me as rjc not spt@cstr.ed.ac.uk		_O_
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From: Richard Caley <spt@cstr.ed.ac.uk>
Subject: Re: Currant Bun
Date: 2000/01/19
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