Re: UNIX: The Experiment That Failed - and the humorous book it is from.
H. Peter Anvin (hpa@transmeta.com)
14 Apr 1997 18:58:07 GMT
Followup to: <97Apr14.124152edt.32257-1@brickwall.ceddec.com>
By author: tz@execpc.com
In newsgroup: linux.dev.kernel
>
> The real question is why did MicroSoft adopt most of the worse features
> cited in the book. X is terrible as are all 2nd systems, but it runs on
> top of the OS, not inside it - as did MS Win - until recently, but only
> sort-of since DOS comes up in '95, then the GUI, but now you can't turn
> off the GUI.
>
Actually, you can... of course, when the GUI starts up it actually
replaces most of DOS, to the extent that *filenames* aren't the same
in DOS and GUI mode...
-hpa
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