9 Sep
2012
9 Sep
'12
9:58 a.m.
> But to be fair, lots of OSs had problems if you
turned off without
> shutting down. It's just that MS-DOS was so rudimentary that it didn't
> /have/ a shutdown procedure and so users weren't accustomed to this.
On Sun, 9 Sep 2012, Dave McGuire wrote:
Yeah. That's sorta analogous to people
preferring IDE because it's
"simpler" because it "doesn't need all those silly terminators and
stuff". It actually DID need terminators...but they were never
implemented due to a stellar combination of cheapness and cluelessness.
Good analogy!
Since the advent of hard disks MS-DOS (2.00 and above) SHOULDA had a
shutdown procedure, including a "head park".
But, due to a stellar combination of cheapness and cluelessness, . . .