Mail Archives: opendos/2004/01/10/04:49:39
On 10 Jan 2004 at 2:46, Day Brown wrote:
> shadow AT shadowgard DOT com wrote:
>
> > > The main reason I subscribe to the OpenDOS
> > > newsgroup is that, for me, the old DOS was both easy to learn and also
> > > very *simple* to manage. One only has to play around with one of the
> > > current flavours of UNIX/Linux for, say, twenty minutes, before one
> > > realizes one isn't in Kansas anymore. UNIX makes some very simple things
> > > a lot more complicated!
> >
> > Oh?
> Linux is simple enough if you're satisfied with what the distro you have
> offers. But trying to add or change anything can lead to endless threads
> such as we see in the Linux lists. The unintended consequences are
> considerably larger because Linux has so much more power.
>
> > > I'm not a psychic, but if Gary Kildall was alive today, I suspect he'd
> > > have taken our OpenDOS to new territories. Unfortunately, he is no
> > > longer with us so we will have to imagine what kind of operating system
> > > he would now be showing us (probably a hybrid of DOS, Netware,
> > > DESQview/X, and EOS). As for computer languages, maybe we should follow
> > > UNIX and simply standardize on plain C?
> >
> > C is a problem language. It tends to encourage
> > certain *bad* programming practices. Like unchecked
> > type casting.
> I never cared for it either. In dos, anything you want to do has already
> been written, and if not, you'll ed up using batch and/or assy to solve
> the problem.
>
> Why dont the print screen key work in Linux? cause it was designed by
> and for system administrators, who dont need a hard copy nearly as often
> as the home user, who has his printer next to him, whereas a network
> printer can be anywhere on earth. Linux is terrific for business, with
> very stable networks the users cannot screw up. But home users get
> annoyed being told they dont have 'permission'.
Besides, redurecting output works just fine.
And when it comes to permissions, you have to
realizre that I'm running a Netware server at home.
I actually *like* being able to have the system
that's doing uucp & Fidonet mail *not* be able to
access a lot of the drives and directories.
--
Leonard Erickson (aka shadow)
shadow at krypton dot rain dot com
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