30 May
2000
30 May
'00
8:17 a.m.
On Tue, 30 May 2000, Richard Erlacher wrote:
The way you separate the operating system from the
executables is by never,
Never, NEVER, mixing them on the same medium, particularly if it's intended
for dissemination. If the platforms are disparate, you certainly don't need
Ok, Mr. Wizard. Build a time machine, travel back in time, and urge all
the various computer manufacturers to never, NEVER mix their OS with the
rest of the program space on the disk. Fortunately, we are not trying to
revise the reality of our world, but are merely trying to deal with what
it has become, which is a much simpler procedure.
At this point I would say it's time for Dick's nap and be done with him
but it seems he has a few more hundred lines of useless spewage as usual.
when these old machines were relevant doesn't
matter. What you need is a
way to put the material you wish to convey to some other party on a medium
which is likely to be readable today and in the future by the intended
destinee.
Really? I thought we were trying to build a perpetual motion machine
here. Thanks for getting me back on track, Dick!
<senseless babbling expunged>
<more enigmatic blather deleted>
I'm just raising the issue that not every system
has floppy disks or mag
tape, and, certainly fewer have both. Then there's the issue of how to read
Well, correct me if I'm wrong, but I *THINK*, not sure, but I THINK, we
were, in fact, talking about creating floppy disk archives. Correct me if
I'm wrong, Dick.
them on system A when written on system B. The
latter's inherently
solvable, but if you want to archive data about or useful with a given OS,
you don't have to write the data to a medium capable of reading or
interpreting the OS image. The primary concern is finding a medium that's
Dick, why do you propose problems that you just end up arguing against?
Are you even aware that there are other people on this mailing list that
you are communicating with, or do you think this entire conversation is
going on in your head? No one ever proposed what you are railing against
right now. Are you insane? No, really. I'm being serious. Do you
suffer from a mental condition?
<more worthless drivel ignored>
It's just as I said before: You simply want to
transmit, but you don't want
to receive.
No, Dick. The problem here is you are transmitting, then receiving it
yourself, getting angry at what you read, and then associating it with
whatever hapless fool happens to be in the vicinity at the moment, and
then blaming them for it.
EARTH TO DICK: GET A CLUE.
Sellam International Man of Intrigue and Danger
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