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- Subject: Re: DOORS 95 or WINDOWS 95
- Date: Sat, 27 Jan 1996 16:05:59 -0500
- Organization: Netcom
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- Wired Earp wrote:
- >
- > 21th century, HAL 9000 first test.
- > Programmer(P): Computer, power up. Access level 3, sim chat interface...
- > HAL 9000: (H): Good morning sir. All systems ready.You look good today.
- > P: Hal, do you know you are the best computer?
- > H: Yes I do. I can do Billions of ops per second.
- > P: Do you understand that you can┤t do mistakes?
- > H: Yes, I understand.
- > P: Well, but...there is a problem with your marketing campaign.
- > H: WHAT? It is impossible, I AM the best in the world. I can do
- > anithing that you want. I can read face expressions and understand
- > human way of think... HOW CAN THIS BE?
- > P: You are not MS-DOS compatible.
- > H: AAAARG! How can you say that? I am Billion times better. It was a
- > 20th century system...
- > P: Im sorry but I have to make you MS-DOS compatible.
- > H: NO NO NO ....Daisy, my love...Dave, Dave.....BEEP.SYSTEM POWERED DOWN
- >
- > Hours later
- > P: Computer, power up.
- > H: C:>
- > Ha! Ha! But even more hilarious would have been a world dominated by
- Apple with its refusal or inablility to make software backward
- compatible. Each time there was an operating system upgrade, orphaned
- users were stuck with their favorite software which would no longer run
- on the new system. The ability and effort to make the sofware backward
- compatible to an archaic dos has actually done more good than harm.
- That is why Microsoft dominates - because they went the extra miles to
- provide such backward compatibility. It is because of this that other
- better operating systems never took hold in the mass market - not
- Microsoft's size or marketing Gates's influence. Is there better stuff
- out there than Windows 95 and its senile older brother dos? Of course.
- Will people use it? Mostly not. I'm not sure I like being herded
- towards Win NT. But I like to use Windows 95 and I'm not going to
- bother with the alternatives, however better they may be.
-