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- From: bloc1469@ee.ee.uwm.edu (Gregory R Block)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.advocacy
- Subject: Re: CBM mention on 12/11/92 Computer Chronicles
- Date: 28 Dec 1992 18:52:56 GMT
- Organization: Electrical Engineering Dept. University of Wisconsin - Milwaukee
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- In article <1992Dec28.151721.12729@sol.ctr.columbia.edu> jerry@msi.com (Jerry Shekhel) writes:
- >I beg to differ. I'm not the one writing articles denouncing everything
- >from Intel CPUs to Madonna.
-
- The point was this: Just because a million people buy something
- doesn't mean that what they bought is anything of
- worth/value/craftsmanship. MS-DOS fails to be a miracle of software
- engineering by just a bit, and yet here it is, the most popular
- non-OS since... Well, since never. Never before have millions of
- people made a move towards running a program-loader rather than a real
- operating system. Anyways, that was the point.
-
- >Actually, I believe it *is* fortunate. If everyone thought like you, they'd
- >all buy the same machine, and the industry would stagnate. As bad as you may
- >think Windows is, it did force Commodore to polish the WB and start thinking
- >about DIG/VM.
-
- No, everybody'd be buying machines that had some technical merit,
- likely. Anyways, again, that's NOT the point. Millions of people
- buying something doesn't make that something good. I suppose that,
- under you above statement...
-
- Since MS-DOS sold millions and millions of copies, C= should consider
- wiping out everything in AmigaOS except LoadSeg?
-
- Again, it's your sweeping generalizations that bite you in the ass.
-
- >Because we were having a factual discussion, and you decided to use
- >your opinions as if they were fact:
- >
- > "Name one worthwhile PC OS with a consistent user interface."
- > "Windows."
- > "That's not a worthwhile PC OS."
- >
- >See what I mean?
-
- Agreed, that was a bit off. However, claiming that Windows is
- suddenly God's gift to Software Architecture isn't a whole lot better.
- Unfortunately, Windows falls to the left of being a good OS, and NT
- falls way to the right. OS/2 has a good begining. Plan 9, OS/9,
- AmigaOS, and even SOME unix systems have hit at least part of the nail
- on the head, and have features that some high-end unix systems and
- things under design are just now getting.
-
- Like the flexibility of Plan 9's/AmigaOS's filesystems...
-
- Greg
-
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