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From: cramer@optilink.UUCP (Clayton Cramer)
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Subject: Re: dosread.c again
Message-ID: <2526@optilink.UUCP>
Date: 23 Oct 89 17:53:04 GMT
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In article <6615@ficc.uu.net>, peter@ficc.uu.net (Peter da Silva) writes:
> 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

Missed all the nasty remarks about the "Macintoy" a while back?

# 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.

I think a more accurate statement is that DOS is limited by its
age.  (Of course, Microsoft's approach to software doesn't excite
me much either, but comparing DOS -- still largely limited by
hardware compatibility problems from 1979 design requirements) to
the Mac (five very fast years later) isn't particularly fair.

I'm not particularly a DOS partisan, either.  I have an AT at
home, I use a Mac regularly, and a Sun 3, but this arrogant
contempt that is continually being shown by academics for the
PC AND the Mac annoys me.
-- 
Clayton E. Cramer {pyramid,pixar,tekbspa}!optilink!cramer
Drugs are destroying the moral fiber of America...Another beer, please.
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