🚀 go-pugleaf

In article <01bc4d2c$60d4f480$10ca06d0@mercury>,
Bill Weisgerber <bil...@msn.com> wrote:
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>Robert Billing <uncl...@tnglwood.demon.co.uk> wrote in article
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>>  That's why I'm running OS/2 and keep meaning to get around to adding
>> Linux. It is fair to compare Windoze to anything else when you are
>> trying to educate barbarians who think that the sun is pushed by a
>> giant dung beetle, or that Windoze is a real OS.
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>If you can get to a big city, go visit a major bookstore and figure out how
>much shelf space is dedicated to what in terms of computer programming
>books.  
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>At the Book Stop in Altamonte Springs, FL, there's about 200 feet of total
>shelving, 6 rows high.  There's one six foot section devoted to Mac, Linux,
>Unix, and OS/2.  About 10 times as much for Windows95, NT, and
>COM/DCOM/ActiveX/OLE, etc. topics.  The rest is apps (mostly Windows stuff
>like Excel/Word/Access) and Internet (mostly page layout/Java/etc).

Why is it Windows needs so many more books?  All those useful titles too
like "Learn to hold your mouse the right way up in only 7 days.", "Mastering
Windows for those with an IQ less than 10."

>I think this is pretty indicative of where the technology is going.  With
>NT starting to take over workstations ala DEC Alpha, etc., it won't be too
>much longer and you hobbyists will be doing your own OS extensions if you
>don't get with the Microsoft program.

You may not have noticed but the hobbyists have already done their own
entire operating system - several times over.  They're doing very nicely
thank you.

John
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John Winters.  Wallingford, Oxon, England.