Mail Archives: opendos/2000/07/08/21:49:36
Recently, I was "forced" to use a "MAC" G3....
My memories from 9-years ago seemed to be reinforced.
The methodology for using, installing,etc was not for humans...
- I love to "hack", but this effort was a waste! (even the experts
could not get it to work!)
The "intuitive" system is not "intuitive " to users, only Apple
programmers!!!
Messages told me to do "this", then said I shouldn't have done that
?????
Windoz is better and new Linux distributions are 50x better....
The point is: it's a machine that does what its told to do, at some
point the user and/or
programmer must know how to instruct the computer what needs to be
done....
DOS borrows much from the Unix command structure, functionality is less
but often
ability to use/understand is more.
Generally DOS is simple(for an OS), but effective for most users. Add a
few utilities and it can
become a very productive system.
I never used windoz until 1996, when my job required I use AOL ! It
seems years ago now,
but maybe because of all the headaches trying to get 3.11 and NT to do
something :=)
Long live DOS !!!!
Neal
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