27 Sep
2005
27 Sep
'05
8:57 p.m.
Rumor has it that Jules Richardson may have mentioned these words:
Out of interest (here I go OT *again*), presumably MS
OS software is
finding its way into various handheld devices these days. How good is it?
MS always struck me as a company who were incapable of thinking on a
small, efficient scale so it'd be interesting to hear how well they are
coping...
At the risk of 1) dragging this weird topic back *on* topic, and 2) pizzing
off people by being pro-M$[1] -- M$ has made several useful minimalistic
OSs - just look at the Tandy 100/102/200, M$'s HH/OS in the Tandy 600, and
other examples out there in classicland...
And it's not *all* M$'s fault, either! I feel that XP would be about 1/2
size, if it wasn't for all the dancing dogs & wizards that those of us who
can actually run a computer don't need - they put it in there for all the
lusers...
Granted, M$ hasn't considered OS efficiency in a long, long time... but
they used to be able to do quite a bit in 32K or less.
Laterz,
Roger "Merch" Merchberger
[1] and yet, I have a really, *really* sour taste in my mouth after the
multi-attempt, multi-hour legal WinXP activation SNAFU I just had earlier
today - my first install - and they say it's easier than Linux... Sheesh!
--
Roger "Merch" Merchberger -- SysAdmin, Iceberg Computers
zmerch at 30below.com
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