Message-ID: <3967DB8F.4C73F5A5@pysmatic.net> Date: Sat, 08 Jul 2000 18:55:27 -0700 From: Neal X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.08 [en] (WinNT; I) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: "opendos AT delorie DOT com" Subject: More ranting.. DOS, Windoz,etc Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Reply-To: opendos AT delorie DOT com 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