On Sat, Mar 19, 2005 at 07:05:02PM -0600, micheal wrote: > windows 3.1 was released in 1992 > > http://www.computerhope.com/history/19902000.htm > > You could argue that Windows 1.0 was released in 1985 > > http://www.computerhope.com/history/198090.htm > > But Windows 1.0 was a file system manager that ran on top of an OS, > usually DOS. Windows was not generally thought of as an Operating System > at that time. Heck, many people would even say that today. :) Possibly even : http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gene_Spafford http://www.cerias.purdue.edu/homes/tripunit/spaf-analogies.html 26 * "...consider McDonalds -- it is fast, cheap, and used by millions. However, it also contributes to obesity, heart disease, and (arguably) deforestation." 27 * "...consider cigarettes -- giving the people what they want may be killing them." 28 * "Architects cannot learn to design grand cathedrals if they are taught all their drawing courses using only an Etch-a-Sketch because the company struck a deal with the university..." 29 * "...spousal abuse [in which] one person gets regularly beaten by the other, yet won't leave because of some sense of loyalty. The bond is often only broken by death." >From an email about Windows supplanting other operating systems in Universities -- Jargon file, abrgd.: The September that never ended. On the Internet, every September's freshmen influx got their first accounts and, not knowing how to post/email, always made a nuisance of themselves. Usually they were trained in a few months. But in September 1993, AOL users became able to post, overwhelming the capacity to acculturate them; to those who recall the period before, this triggered a decline in the quality of online communications. Syn. eternal September. http://kinz.org http://www.fedoranews.org Jeff Kinz, Emergent Research, Hudson, MA.
