From: eplmst AT lu DOT erisoft DOT se (Martin Stromberg)
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.djgpp
Subject: Re: Problems compiling and running a program.
Date: 24 Oct 1999 14:15:21 GMT
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We are getting very off-topic here, but I can't resist the urge to
educate you people of Swedish...

Damian Yerrick (web DOT poison AT pineight DOT 8m DOT com) wrote:

: Martin Stromberg <eplmst AT lu DOT erisoft DOT se> wrote in message
: > DOS and WINDOWS end with a similar sound: doze.

: Not in America, where DOS rhymes with BOSS.

In Swedish we only have the sound of s (at least that's what I think),
which make it hard for us to learn French where "ils ont" and "ils
sont" should sound differently. It means "they have" and "they are"
which is quite a big difference.

: > So DOZE is DOS (any variant) and WINDOZE is
: > WINDOWS (any variant)

: Including X-Windows environments such as
: GNOME and KDE?

No, Unix and Linux is case-sensitive so "X-Windows" don't match
"*DOZE"...

: > and *DOZE is all variants thereof.

: So Linux is a *DOZE?

Nope. Linux is the kernel and X-Windows is the framework for the GUI.
Furthermore, in contrast to *DOZE it doesn't doze.

: > Additionaly WINDOZE is really behaving like it's
: > dozing most of the time.

: That's because it is; install the RC5DES client to make
: it use its idle cycles for a good cause.
: http://www.distributed.net/

No, it obviously doing something like repainting the screen or writing
to disk or just plainly hung, so I have to wait for it. That make me
want to go and doze.


U2, Boy,

							MartinS