[PRCo] Re: ADVISORY

[Fred Schneider]

As I recall, DOS evolved from QDOS which stood for Quick and Dirty  
Operating System by its designer who ultimately took the business  
away from IBM and formed Microsoft.

And DOS worked.   I had trouble getting used to Windows.   I liked  
typing DISKCOPY A: B:.   I knew the old commands.

On Aug 27, 2006, at 8:34 PM, Jim Holland wrote:

> Yep  --  just got the one!
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> But don't worry about it  --  we know the computers have minds of  
> their
> own  --  kind of scary!!
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> When I first learned computers in 1986, I had three observations:
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> 01.>--    """Finally Man has invented something that is More Difficult
> Than Woman!"""       Love telling that in Mixed Company and So Far the
> Eye is quicker than the hand  --  ain't gotten a Black One  --
> Yet!       (((Besides,  I have essentially recanted that statement
> except to tell it for its surprize / shock value!!!)))
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> 02.>--    It is necessary to get into the Mind of the [software]  
> writer
> to fully understand the logic behind the rules, said rules being  
> limited
> to those already copyrighted which then demands that this most recent
> writer use a different form of logic to accomplish the same thing!!!
> .
> 03.>--    I was 3-stories above ground level sitting in front of a
> 12-foot wide plate glass window and I Would Have Gladly Paid to  
> replace
> said window for the Joy Of Pushing That Computer Through It    ----
> and in 1986 I only had an 8088 DOSe computer!!!!!!!       (((Never
> switched to Windows for a decade, and started with 3.1!!!)))
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> Jim___Holland
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> hrbran99 at adelphia.net wrote:
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>> .......BTW Jim, I deleted the Cc to you this time.
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>> HrB
>>
>> ---- Jim Holland <prcopcc at p-r-co.com> wrote:
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>>> I still get 2-emails from you when you reply to something onlist  
>>> that
>>> I have sent!!!!! Not a complaint, Herb -- just an observation! The
>>> Fun(?) of computters!!!!!!!
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