From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=0.1 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_05,INVALID_MSGID autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,df854b5838c3e14 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public From: pitre@n5160d.nrl.navy.mil (Richard Pitre) Subject: Re: Unix Haters Date: 1996/03/26 Message-ID: <4j94fp$e3i@ra.nrl.navy.mil>#1/1 X-Deja-AN: 144349570 references: organization: Naval Research Laboratory newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Date: 1996-03-26T00:00:00+00:00 List-Id: In article dewar@cs.nyu.edu (Robert Dewar) writes: > "I'm not saying that it's the best OS. But it's good enough, and more standard > than most." > > Well that brightens up the morning, I good joke is always a nice way to > start the day :-) More standard than most, ho ho! They all suck big hooters. The last worthwhile change happened somewhere around 1984. That innovation is being systematically buried in foolishness. If everyone demanded functionality instead of bragging rights the computer industry would change overnight. Things have finally gotten to the point where hardware and software doesn't even have to work in order to be *great* i.e. achieve a significant religious following. Someone I know refuses to use a computer made by company X because in 1979 he was offended by a salesman from that company. So now he uses a computer that only works correctly when it is disassembled. The hard drive sits on a box or whatever. Its damned fast too. Another friend knows that his system is ok because he touched the heat sink and it didn't burn his finger. His is even faster There is a *stability enhancement patch* for a popular operating system that keeps it from destroying the data that its designed to manage. 50 years of technological advancments. Wow. I can't wait to see what the next 50 years brings. Fortran will probably have nthtaprecision and spinor algebra, UNIX will have standardized partially functioning SMP and PC's will all run UNIX by another name with a mouse, pictures and animated singing icons. Hey, lets start a new group and compile the idiocy. Near as I can tell its going into overdrive. I wouldn't be so exhasperated if all this miscreant marketing boolshite hadn't taken chunks out of me and everyone around me. One more failed install and I'm going to convert all my computers into boat anchors and use one of those new CD32 game machines for all my real world simulations. richard