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=-0.4 required=5.0 tests=AC_FROM_MANY_DOTS,BAYES_00
	autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4
X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit
X-Google-Thread: 103376,55958fd991db66fe
X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public
X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2002-09-15 18:54:48 PST
Path: 
 archiver1.google.com!news1.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!logbridge.uoregon.edu!snoopy.risq.qc.ca!newsfeed.news2me.com!newsfeed2.earthlink.net!newsfeed.earthlink.net!stamper.news.pas.earthlink.net!stamper.news.atl.earthlink.net!harp.news.atl.earthlink.net!not-for-mail
From: "Marin David Condic" <mcondic.auntie.spam@acm.org>
Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada
Subject: Re: Advantage of XML based GUI? (was Re: Ada-inspired OS/Language)
Date: Sat, 14 Sep 2002 08:49:29 -0400
Organization: MindSpring Enterprises
Message-ID: <am3dl8$gaq$1@slb4.atl.mindspring.net>
References: <mailman.1031523303.26917.comp.lang.ada@ada.eu.org>
 <slrnanots5.2b2.randhol+news@kiuk0156.chembio.ntnu.no>
 <4519e058.0209101828.cb5ff85@posting.google.com>
 <3d7f9d3f.920665532@news.cis.dfn.de>
 <slrnao0ihd.14r.randhol+news@kiuk0156.chembio.ntnu.no>
 <3d80b566.992395741@news.cis.dfn.de> <3D81D690.1949CF65@acm.org>
 <wcchegt29hu.fsf@shell01.TheWorld.com>
 <lWN852sx0i7b@eisner.encompasserve.org>
NNTP-Posting-Host: d1.56.b1.f8
X-Server-Date: 16 Sep 2002 01:54:48 GMT
X-Priority: 3
X-MSMail-Priority: Normal
X-Newsreader: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.00.2314.1300
X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.00.2314.1300
Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:29001
Date: 2002-09-16T01:54:48+00:00
List-Id: <comp.lang.ada>

Larry Kilgallen <Kilgallen@SpamCop.net> wrote in message
news:lWN852sx0i7b@eisner.encompasserve.org...
> In article <wcchegt29hu.fsf@shell01.TheWorld.com>, Robert A Duff
<bobduff@shell01.TheWorld.com> writes:
> > Marin David Condic <mcondic.auntie.spam@acm.org> writes:
> >
> >> ...But whatever you can do to minimize the need for the user
> >> to mess around with installing and selecting drivers is going to be a
> >> plus for the OS.
> >
> > For each driver installed, the user should be required to reboot the
> > machine 6 times.  While standing on one foot.
>
> No, while standing on 5 feet !

Well, just so long as I don't have to slaughter a goat and leave its
entrails on the keyboard at moonrise, I think it will be an improvement.

MDC
--
======================================================================
Marin David Condic
I work for: http://www.belcan.com/
My project is: http://www.jast.mil/

Send Replies To: m c o n d i c @ a c m . o r g

    "I'd trade it all for just a little more"
        --  Charles Montgomery Burns, [4F10]
======================================================================