[time-nuts] For my whole life timezones have been weird
DaveH
info at blackmountainforge.com
Sat Nov 3 17:12:07 UTC 2012
And remember how late they were to network support?
I had a computer store at that time and sold a lot of Artisoft LANtastic
kits because Win3.1 did not have network support. I believe it was
slipstreamed in 3.11.
Most of my installations were so several machines in an office could share a
common printer.
Dave
> -----Original Message-----
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> [mailto:time-nuts-bounces at febo.com] On Behalf Of Chris Albertson
> Sent: Saturday, November 03, 2012 08:50
> To: Discussion of precise time and frequency measurement
> Subject: Re: [time-nuts] For my whole life timezones have been weird
>
> 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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