Day Brown wrote: > > As for DOS being for geeks, well that would be so were > the user also confronted with that CLI, but in point of > fact, 'turnkey' menu systems have been out there for dos > newbies since the mid-80's that had the autoexec pop up > first thing with a color ansi menu
The important word here is mid-80's. The early menus enabled ordinary users to get work done without understanding the underlying operating system. In fact the underlying operating system was irrelevant. One of those early DOS menus could just as easily be used as a front-end for a Linux system and the user would never know (other than the fact that he gets a Linux word- processor when he selects WORDPROCESSOR from the menu). As time went by, these front-end menus became quite sophistocated and computer retailers began including them with new computers. By the early-90's the most popular front-end menu for DOS was a mouse-operated graphical menu called Microsoft Windows. > boxes for the user to 'click' or 'enter' on to do the > routine tasks of word processing, spreadsheet, both of > which had internal file managers, and maybe even a fax > tool. These users never saw the dos prompt. Yes, these people became known as "Menu Users" or "Windows Users". They only knew how to operate the menu; they could not operate the underlying operating system. If their menu crashed, they were helpless. These people were not DOS users. Only geeks knew how to use DOS. > I got a brand new Suse on the scsi, and tried to install > games off a couple of CD ROMs. You know how you can open > the control center and you get this list on the left? No I don't. I am unfamiliar with your "control center". Is this part of the graphical menu you are using? > well all of a sudden the section just below 'desktop' > called 'hardware' is missing. The next one now on the > list is 'information'. The printer, floppy disk, and > the dos ide are all gone. Either your menu is mis-behaving or you do not understand how the menu operates. This certainly is *not* a reason to reinstall the operating system. Cheers, Steven 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
