"Short Wave Sportfishing" wrote in message
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On Wed, 04 Oct 2006 15:48:44 -0000, "thunder"
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On Wed, 04 Oct 2006 15:41:54 +0000, Short Wave Sportfishing wrote:


You know what all this reminds me of?

The bad old days of CPM. :)

Slightly before my time, but IIRC, you one time mentioned that you loved
DOS. That you "could make it sing", IIRC. One of the things I like about
Linux, it has a GUI, yes, but it also integrates a command line. I find I
still use the command line quite often, a through back to my DOS days, no
doubt.

You mentioned that and believe it or not, that's why I want to try it.

I loved DOS in all it's iterations - every mini computer manufacturer
had a version of DOS and they were al pretty similar. I could do
anything I wanted in DOS - I had a real affinity for it. When I was
working for a CNC manufacturer, I could interface machine code and DOS
in my sleep.

I never really took to GUI, although I use it now, because I see it
as the Spawn of The Devil - namely Macs.

Macs were made for dumbasses and those who have no ability to work in
DOS because it was "too difficult". :)

There - that ought to start a fight. :)

I used to use a version of Excel which came with (apparently) a runtime
Windows kernel so it could be used on a machine without Windows installed. I
had no mouse, so the Mac users would constantly tell me how I wasn't getting
the full benefit of Excel. Of course, this made no sense, since I was able
to create spreadsheets & graphs faster than they could. And, they could
never quite explain how a mouse helps with typing words & numbers.