"G. Douglas Burton (95)" wrote: > > You know this entire discussion can be summed up by admitting if you > learned computers using DOS, you will think that DOS is easier to > use. Same goes if you came into the computer realm using Unix/Linux. You > are naturally going to think that it is by far the superior OS. I just > feel sorry for the poor saps whose first contact with computers was > WIndows, they don't have a clue! Well fur sure they dont. But I learned with a keyboard punching cards for an IBM 360 and another punching paper tape, the PDP 9. Then years later getting my hands on an Apple ][, and then my very first clone, a Franklin, and then a 286 in woodcase. Learning different operating systems as I went along.
Windows was not an improvement in functionality. Before, anyone who worked at a keyboard was a clerk/typist. a lowly office grunt. Managers would not dream of putting their fingers on a keyboard. The mouse solved that. It allowed them to have a little device on their own desk whose main function was to show that _this_ computer was not a tool for an office grunt. It allowed them to access information that they themselves had not actually entered with the keyboard, which gave a sense of power, without the plebian necessity of actually having to learn to type. To unsubscribe from SURVPC send a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe SURVPC in the body of the message. Also, trim this footer from any quoted replies. More info can be found at; http://www.softcon.com/archives/SURVPC.html
