Re: A85: stupid remarks

To: assembly-85@lists.ticalc.org
Subject: Re: A85: stupid remarks
From: PXGray@aol.com
Date: Wed, 6 Jan 1999 18:33:55 EST
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In a message dated 1/6/99 1:50:13 PM US Eastern Standard Time,
japiitul@freenet.hut.fi writes:

> Winblows is really good word... how could you otherwise put this in single 
> word
>  - it's price has blowed way too high (about 10-20 times the real value)
it's 
> codebase 
>  is really huge - for ex. graphics APIs... we have GDI, DirectDraw, MCI and 
> plus the 
>  APIs to APIs... Windows' codebase is about 5 larger than it would need to
be 
> for 
>  that functionality... comparing to real operating systems, in which you
have 
> initially
>  only the core, kernel, and can freely decide what additional components you
> want to
>  include or leave out.
>  
>  The price for this bloat is slowness and eror proneness!
>  
>  Bottom line: Winblows is justified.

Do you use a Mac or a Linux system?  Or are you just justifying the word?