[time-nuts] For my whole life timezones have been weird

[Bob Camp]

Hi

Possibly because they run multiple very large / very expensive software packages that are Windows only items.

Bob


On Nov 3, 2012, at 11:50 AM, Chris Albertson <albertson.chris at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Fri, Nov 2, 2012 at 10:32 PM, Sarah White <kuzetsa at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
>> So, at or around 1981 (the year I was born) there was a cool concept.
>> IBM was selling "personal computers" (IBM-PC compatible later became a
>> thing) and by the time I was old enough to operate a modem, I had one
>> myself. Life was good.
>> 
>> Wonder if there is any sensible way to petition microsoft to fix this
>> stupid mistake dating back to the DOS era. Windows 8 / metro is out now,
>> and I can't bloody stand the changes.
> 
> 
> I always wonder why people continue to use MS Windows.  Perhaps thheir
> employers force them to.   But other than that why?
> 
> I went to a  meetig once where Bill Gate talked about the "new" OS called
> "MS-DOS"  At that time I already had a reasonable education in computer
> science and was working the systems software for multi-user systems and
> networking.    What absolutly amazzed me was the Gates said his plan was to
> make DOS more and more "nix-like" over the years.  Then he went on to say
> what thatment and it was clear he did NOT know the difference between an
> operating system and a shell.  He absolutely didn't.
> 
> That is the root cause of all Window's problems.  The company was run be a
> "chief software architect" who technically very ignorant and lacked any
> formal education in the subject.  Windows still suffers because it tries to
> maintain backwards compatabilty
> 
> You have to remember that in 1980 we have computers that would allow 100
> people to simultainiously log in and do work from 100 different termmiansl.
> We have the Internet (called arpanet back then.  We had email and UNIX was
> alive and well.   We even had mice and track balls This was not the "dark
> ages" the only real difference was the price of hardware.  And in this age
> gates did NOT know the difference between an OS and a command shell and he
> was running Microsoft.
> 
> 
> Chris Albertson
> Redondo Beach, California
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