This is sounding like the Big Endians verus the Little Endians
from Gulliver's Travels. Seems Swift had had it
with arguments
over whether the host turned into the Body of Christ or not
and so his Lilliputions had a long and tragic war over
whether a hard boiled egg was broken on the small side or the
large side.
I confess to being a Linuxite and so I expect the Bill Gates
Inquisition to be banging on my door soon. I have to use
Windows at work because that is part of the contract the
Philadelphia School District has with Redwood.
I think a lot of people simply despise Mr. Gates for his
heavyhanded marketing and his engulf and devour method of
dealing with the competition on his way to creating a
monopoly. So the fanaticism does have an actual historical
root and can even be considered collateral damage in the
evolution of computers in the eighties and beyond.
bs
On Sun, 31 Aug 2008, Chuck Guzis wrote:
Crikey. Another <Operating system-1> is better
than <Operating
system-2> thread. And modern operating systems yet.
Let's put this thing in the proper (vintage) light. Discuss:
"FMS II is/is not better than IBSYS because..."?
Sigh,
Chuck