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

[DaveH]

And remember how late they were to network support?

I had a computer store at that time and sold a lot of Artisoft LANtastic
kits because Win3.1 did not have network support.  I believe it was
slipstreamed in 3.11.

Most of my installations were so several machines in an office could share a
common printer.

Dave 

> -----Original Message-----
> From: time-nuts-bounces at febo.com 
> [mailto:time-nuts-bounces at febo.com] On Behalf Of Chris Albertson
> Sent: Saturday, November 03, 2012 08:50
> To: Discussion of precise time and frequency measurement
> Subject: Re: [time-nuts] For my whole life timezones have been weird
> 
> 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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