19 Apr
2002
19 Apr
'02
6:19 p.m.
On April 19, Doc Shipley wrote:
I already knew that every other OS that runs on PC does it right. I'd
like to know how M$ got it so horribly wrong....
They're not exactly known for knowing what they're doing. To steal a
phrase from my grandmother, those guys "couldn't pour piss out of a
boot with the instructions written on the side".
-Dave
--
Dave McGuire "Mmmm. Big."
St. Petersburg, FL -Den
WHAT is M$ doing that operating a floppy disk drive
takes ALL of a
1.4GHz CPU and 512M of memory? I wanna know!
That was one of the things IBM bragged about in the OS/2 2.0 ads. That
you could continue with your word processor while you formatted a floppy.
Windows could not even come close at the time.