X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: f996b,9ba64c635b2340c1 X-Google-Attributes: gidf996b,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2001-09-25 02:53:42 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!newsfeed.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!news.tele.dk!small.news.tele.dk!130.133.1.3!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!212.120.170.96!not-for-mail From: grue@mail.ru (Timofei Shatrov) Newsgroups: alt.ascii-art Subject: Re: Dead or alive... Date: Tue, 25 Sep 2001 09:55:39 GMT Lines: 33 Message-ID: <3bb05471.604148@News.CIS.DFN.DE> References: <4tcuqt0h924vpaid8ue9g8h33bl2pj7o0n@4ax.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: 212.120.170.96 X-Trace: fu-berlin.de 1001411620 15358830 212.120.170.96 (16 [101885]) X-Newsreader: Forte Free Agent 1.21/32.243 Xref: archiver1.google.com alt.ascii-art:7928 On Tue, 25 Sep 2001 02:44:14 -0000, anonymous@bogus_address.con tried to confuse everyone with this message: > >On 2001-09-24 nowhere@nowhere.co.uk said: > > >Why would you want to use DOS anyway? It's the worst OS there is. > >Not so. DOS is a small, relatively efficient O.S. ...unlike >that bloated pointee-clickee abomination. > >But more importantly, DOS allows the =user= to make the >decisions about how he wants his machine to look, act and >perform. It's a much more 'down-to-the-metal' O.S., where >the =user= is in control...not some megalomaniac in Redmond, >Washington, U.S.A. > >Besides, DOS is ten times faster than WinDoze on any given >machine. > >Plus, the DOS executable files for any productivity software >programs are 20 to 50 times smaller than a comparable WinDoze >program. A 500 meg hard disk is =more= than sufficient for >a DOS-based machine. You simply don't need a mega-gigabyte >drive. Do you have Intel 80286 processor??? -- Grue Mike Throll comic strip at: http://grue.freeservers.com Bugsoft Perm at: http://bugsoft.freeservers.com