Date: Fri, 30 Nov 2001 22:36:17 -0800 From: "Ted Mittelstaedt" <tedm@toybox.placo.com> To: "Mike Meyer" <mwm@mired.org>, "Anthony Atkielski" <anthony@freebie.atkielski.com> Cc: "Andrew C. Hornback" <achornback@worldnet.att.net>, <chat@freebsd.org>, "Eric Melville" <eric@freebsd.org>, "Randall Hamilton" <nitedog@silly.pikachu.org>, "GB Clark II" <gclarkii@vsservices.com>, <chat@freebsd.org> Subject: RE: Feeding the Troll (Was: freebsd as a desktop ?) Message-ID: <000101c17a32$7b472c60$1401a8c0@tedm.placo.com> In-Reply-To: <15367.37543.15609.362257@guru.mired.org>
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>-----Original Message----- >From: Mike Meyer [mailto:mwm@mired.org] >Sent: Friday, November 30, 2001 6:08 AM >To: Anthony Atkielski >Cc: Ted Mittelstaedt; Andrew C. Hornback; Mike Meyer; chat@freebsd.org; >Eric Melville; Randall Hamilton; GB Clark II; chat@freebsd.org >Subject: Re: Feeding the Troll (Was: freebsd as a desktop ?) > > >As for the second part, most of the Windows users I know are hostile >to computers. Those that have had experience with things other than >Windows - the Mac, for instance - tend to be hostile to Windows. > Hey Mike - great tagline there! :-) > >Windows certainly isn't that. It's basis is DOS, which was a >single-tasking program loader. Ahem - that's "non-reentrant program loader" :-) >Every version since has been saddled >with backwards compatability to that design, which is one of the >reasons for those platforms being unstable. I've been told by an NT >developer that that was the reason that Windows NT was so unstable >that even Bill Gates admitted it. > Bill Gates also at the 1990 Comdex made a speech in which he proclaimed that OS/2 would be the most important operating system of the 90's. >manager that was under active development. Basically, using Windows - >either 3.1, 95 or 98 - for a single day results in more problems from >the GUI than I've had with 15 years using four different graphics >servers and seven different window managers of release quality on >Unix. > I'll make on comment on that here. I've not seen this under Windows GUI - as long as I was running all Microsoft programs. There's a reason for that... Ted Mittelstaedt tedm@toybox.placo.com Author of: The FreeBSD Corporate Networker's Guide Book website: http://www.freebsd-corp-net-guide.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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