Author: Don Dailey
Date: 14:15:49 12/06/97
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On December 06, 1997 at 13:16:50, Fernando Villegas wrote: >Hi Don: >I am the guy that begun all this due to my dissapointment with MCP7 and >I would hate that in a way or another the so called technies thinks that >we, the so called -with a somewhat open despective tone-"end users" >belive that W95 is the very best thing. No, we don't believe it. I toyed >a while with Warp OS-2 and I saw at once that was far superior, but then >I met with the sad fact I have not too many programs to run into it, >beginning with chess. Technological history is full of anecdotes about >far superior products that were killed by inferiuor but better supported >or marketed competitors. Entire lines of development were closed because >of the action of economical and sometimes political powers. Few people >knows that electric car were developed before internal combustion >engines cars, but were putted aside because were not so easy to develop >as a commercial enterprise. NTSC standar of american TV is the result of >jyst a convenience between the companies, being far ing¡ferior to Pal or >Secam systems. And so and so. >Nevertheless, once that for any reason a preponderance is stablished, >we, customers and end-users, can do nothing except to optimize what is >the available product and that product is now W95 AND the way to >optimize an OS is to get all running on it. Is just a matter of economy, >to save time, effort, etc. Techie people forget sommetimes the esential >of life, the sense of proportions and priorities. I dont believe is to >be smart to know how to handle intrincacies of DOS, but to get a system >to forget that intrincacies and get the task done. Then, when we ask >windows 95 chess programs is not because we are completely ignorant of >this stuff or we are idiots following blindly the intrigues of >Microsoft, but because we don't want to expend the time we have >allocated to play chess in trying to configure the system to play chess >another day.What is morte, I don't care if a ptrogram is or nott DOS >based as much I can launch it from W95 without problems as Rebel 8 and >9. Is too much ask to ask all programmers to do the same that Ed do? >Fernando Hi Fernando, Well said. I have no problem with "naive end users" and do not feel any contempt for them. I think they drive the whole industry and I believe computers are so powerful because of them. >Nevertheless, once that for any reason a preponderance is stablished, >we, customers and end-users, can do nothing except to optimize what is >the available product and that product is now W95 AND the way to >optimize an OS is to get all running on it. It's not like there is only one product and we should just resign ourselves to it. We have great choices and should excercise them in cases where it is appropriate. I'm certainly not going to step down to windows just to get the warm and fuzzy feeling of being part of the flock. If I were a commercial software developer I almost certainly would and I do believe Windows has it's place. Perhaps in the future it will improve substantially. But I'm pretty sceptical that it will. Dos stayed essentially the same for over a decade. Since windows is so popular now and so much software runs only on it, why should Microsoft do much more than to make some minor changes once in a while (which everyone will rush out to buy) over the next 10 years or so? Don
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