[time-nuts] For my whole life timezones have been weird

Chris Albertson albertson.chris at gmail.com
Sat Nov 3 15:50:07 UTC 2012


On Fri, Nov 2, 2012 at 10:32 PM, Sarah White <kuzetsa at gmail.com> wrote:

> So, at or around 1981 (the year I was born) there was a cool concept.
> IBM was selling "personal computers" (IBM-PC compatible later became a
> thing) and by the time I was old enough to operate a modem, I had one
> myself. Life was good.
>
> Wonder if there is any sensible way to petition microsoft to fix this
> stupid mistake dating back to the DOS era. Windows 8 / metro is out now,
> and I can't bloody stand the changes.


I always wonder why people continue to use MS Windows.  Perhaps thheir
employers force them to.   But other than that why?

I went to a  meetig once where Bill Gate talked about the "new" OS called
"MS-DOS"  At that time I already had a reasonable education in computer
science and was working the systems software for multi-user systems and
networking.    What absolutly amazzed me was the Gates said his plan was to
make DOS more and more "nix-like" over the years.  Then he went on to say
what thatment and it was clear he did NOT know the difference between an
operating system and a shell.  He absolutely didn't.

That is the root cause of all Window's problems.  The company was run be a
"chief software architect" who technically very ignorant and lacked any
formal education in the subject.  Windows still suffers because it tries to
maintain backwards compatabilty

You have to remember that in 1980 we have computers that would allow 100
people to simultainiously log in and do work from 100 different termmiansl.
 We have the Internet (called arpanet back then.  We had email and UNIX was
alive and well.   We even had mice and track balls This was not the "dark
ages" the only real difference was the price of hardware.  And in this age
gates did NOT know the difference between an OS and a command shell and he
was running Microsoft.


Chris Albertson
Redondo Beach, California


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