6 Jan
2005
6 Jan
'05
3:30 a.m.
On Thu, 6 Jan 2005, Dwight K. Elvey wrote:
Hi Dwight.
Your theory would make sense in an alternate universe where the floppy
disk was never invented ;)
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And the
programmers were not smart enough to figure a way around this
because...why?
It would have been trivial for them to adopt a simple
block transfer for serial binary at the begining. I suspect
that the reason they didn't do this was that they didn't
wan't people to transfer programs from machine to machine.
Can you imaging. 1 million people with computers and they
only sold one OS.