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From: henry@utzoo.uucp (Henry Spencer)
Subject: Re: dosread.c again
Message-ID: <1989Oct20.170447.19573@utzoo.uucp>
Organization: U of Toronto Zoology
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Date: Fri, 20 Oct 89 17:04:47 GMT

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.

The common people make essentially no use of DOS; they just use it to load
programs that take over the whole machine and largely ignore DOS.  Learning
to use DOS itself -- especially the fine points of the file system, which
is what this discussion was about -- *does* take lots of work.  And it's not
worth the trouble for most people, which is exactly what Andy was getting at.

Hatred of DOS is entirely rational, and has nothing to do with who else
uses it.  There are ample reasons to despise that feeble excuse for an
operating system.
-- 
A bit of tolerance is worth a  |     Henry Spencer at U of Toronto Zoology
megabyte of flaming.           | uunet!attcan!utzoo!henry henry@zoo.toronto.edu