9 Apr
2000
9 Apr
'00
3:20 p.m.
being produced by M$ since Win'9x came along.
Moreover, the level of
documentation available for M$ operating systems is, quite simply, a JOKE!
Actually the documentation is good but also there is tons of it worse than
the
vax grey wall if you try to get it all in one place. Its also a hell of a
task to find
things you need among all of that.
If, for example, IBM hadn't given in so easily with
OS/2 we'd have had a
much leaner, faster, RELIABLE OS running on our desktop systems years ago -
not necessarily OS/2, but then it wouldn't be the crap we're stuck with now
either.
I wonder... Linux is getting bigger by the day and the desktops for it do
add
weight.
Allison
10 Apr
10 Apr
8:47 p.m.
Hi,
That's very interesting, both the local college and factory I worked at had
support contracts with M$ but we were unable to get much more information
than what comes in the "user guide" out of them.
I'd have killed for a "grey wall" back then!
....Moreover,
the level of documentation available for M$ operating
systems is, quite simply, a JOKE!
Actually the documentation is good but also there is tons of it worse
than the vax grey wall if you try to get it all in one place.... I wonder... Linux is getting bigger by the day and the
desktops for it
do add weight.
I must admit, I'm a little concerned with the way things are headed in the
Linux world right now. But then at least the underlying OS is lean and
stable and you can pare down your installation any way you want. My recent
Win2K test installation, OTOH, came in at well over 600Mb, and insisted on
installing piles of stuff which I neither want nor use (like the
accessibility options) with no way of uninstalling them....without going to
a LOT of trouble anyway.
TTFN - Pete.
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