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From: peter@ficc.uu.net (Peter da Silva)
Newsgroups: comp.os.minix,comp.sys.ibm.pc,comp.unix.xenix
Subject: Re: dosread.c again
Message-ID: <6615@ficc.uu.net>
Date: 20 Oct 89 18:15:36 GMT
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In article <2501@optilink.UUCP> cramer@optilink.UUCP (Clayton Cramer) writes:
> I'm sure that if DOS weren't used by COMMON PEOPLE, the DOS-haters
> would make appropriate criticisms of the many very real deficiencies
> of DOS, and leave it at that.  But as long as someone can learn to
> use a computer without devoting years of their life to it, the
> DOS-haters will remain filled with irrational hatred.

Oh, fiddlesticks.

If this was the case then the Macintosh would be the computer everyone
feels disdain for. Making effective use of a DOS machine is much, much
harder than making effective use of a Mac. But us slimey elitists merely
point out the fery real deficiencies of the Mac and leave it at that. Why?
Largely because where the Mac is limited by its origins, DOS is limited
by deliberate malice on the part of IBM and Microsoft.

(yes, I know that a corporation can't feel malice, but if you trust the
Turing test there is no better phrase for the behaviour of these companies)
-- 
Peter da Silva, *NIX support guy @ Ferranti International Controls Corporation.
Biz: peter@ficc.uu.net, +1 713 274 5180. Fun: peter@sugar.hackercorp.com. `-_-'
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