On Fri, 4 Jun 2004, Jeff Tickle wrote: > You make a good point... and the world would be such a better place if > people would take time to actually learn a little bit about this magic > box that gives them email and Solitare. Microsoft would love to make it > just that, too, so that none of the people would ever think "Ooh, maybe > I can make Solitare better! Or even write my own software!" (too > late.)
In the early days of Microsoft, users *were* more sophisticated. They had to know how to write batch files, use the command line, etc. They even usually had to know a thing or two about memory management, IRQ's, DMA's and more. Now I don't miss the hardware conflicts a bit, or having to push stuff into higher memory addresses to keep as much of that precious lower 640K free as possible. Even in the days of 16 bit Windows this was an issue. Windows 95 and Windows NT 3.1 were the first significant milestones in dumbing down the users, IMO. And since they were just straight ripoffs of Mac OS and OS/2, respectively, we only have Apple and IBM to blame for dumb users. ;-) -- TriLUG mailing list : http://www.trilug.org/mailman/listinfo/trilug TriLUG Organizational FAQ : http://trilug.org/faq/ TriLUG Member Services FAQ : http://members.trilug.org/services_faq/ TriLUG PGP Keyring : http://trilug.org/~chrish/trilug.asc
