oyster@uwmacc.UUCP (Vicarious Oyster) (01/22/87)
In article <1270@cbmvax.cbmvax.cbm.UUCP> daveh@cbmvax.cbm.UUCP (Dave Haynie) writes: > >Get a clue, pal... > Huh? I suppose it's time to drag out my Dictionary of American Regional English. >...ask a UNIX wiz why MS-DOS doesn't qualify as a real OS. Asking a Unix "guru" about *anything* except Unix is like asking a used-car salesman about the cars on somebody elses' lot. > >Of course, you can buy an ***** and not need a "higher memory model". >I've got one here with a megabyte, there's one in the next office with >512K, I've another around here with 4 megabytes on it. All the same >model. Hmmmm, I don't want to get into computer wars here (*), but my "low memory model" competitors computer has more memory than it came with. What's the point? (*) Computer wars make me wonder. After all, if an owner of computer A was secure in his/her purchase, why bother attempting to belittle computer model B (and C). Envy? (Oh-oh, here comes the flood...) >And since the *****'s OS multitasks, you can do >real things with that memory, not just attempt to get by with kludges >like "desk accessories" or "memory-resident utilities". And here's another argument I scoff at. Since I'm using analogies, how about this: Two people watch a world-class gymnast perform a flawless routine. One says to the other "Wow! What ability! What perfection! What poetry!" "Yes," responds the other, "but she's working *all* *out*, and has been practicing for *years*. I'm not impressed." The machine >I'm typing on now has a CLI window open in the background doing a >diskcopy, and as well I've got a screen blanking program, clock, >print server, and a few other tasks running. Just try that on one >of the other machines. Well, hell. I own an ***** **, and the machine *I'm* typing on now has a C compilation going in one window in the background, etc. Heh, heh. Clever, eh? I didn't mention that I'm not using the **. It's the IBM XT, running a non-operating system, that I'm using. Fooled yah! :-) > > "You can keep my things, they've come to take me home" > -Peter Gabriel "Drink up, dreamers, you're running dry." -ditto