At 09:55 PM Monday 9/24/2007, jon louis mann wrote: >Not operating system, not networks. Now that the idea >is so visible, people are seeing that it has been around for >a long time, but wasn't so noticeable. >nick > >this is where you lost me... >jon > >i think i got the gist of it, nick, thanks. > >i sorta know what an operating system is and what are applications. i >can turn on a computer and send e-mail, bnut that is about it. and i >NEVER play games or solitaire. i have never had a need to create ASCII >files. a POP is a mystery to me., i think i may have made a document >and used data formats... i have no clue what cross-platform is and if >you explain it, i will surely forget.~) market pressure for >compatibility is self explanatory, and virtualization probably means >modeling? helps, too,
By way of analogy, imagine if you could only send and receive e-mail with people who have computers of exactly the same type as you do, running exactly the same type of software rather than the way it is, where it doesn't matter (and none of those sending or receiving e-mail need to know) whether any given user is on a Mac or a Windows box or a -nix box, or which of a number of different e-mail programs they are using. Or that one person can create a web page and post a document or a picture there using a Mac and anyone else using Windows can access and read the document or view the picture without trouble. (Ideally, that is . . . there may be still be some combinations of OS and browser which have difficulty rendering particular types of formatting which were created with a different OS and/or browser, but in general things are getting better all the time . . . ) -- Ronn! :) _______________________________________________ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l
