phantom files

Joep L. Blom jlblom at neuroweave.nl
Thu Sep 11 19:05:31 UTC 2008


Karl Larsen schreef:
> Derek Broughton wrote:
>> Mark Haney wrote:
>>
>>   
>>> Here's my take.  (and OPINION only)  I think that the majority of Ubuntu
>>> users are from the Windows world.  Ubuntu is pretty good for getting
>>> n00bs on to linux.
>     If your over 50 years old, 100% of you are old Windows and/or DOS 
> users. That was what was there before Linux. I enjoyed my old 1984 100% 
> Microsoft capable clone for many years with DOS on it. I recall in 
> College about 5% of the students bought DOS and the other 95% borrowed 
> from them. DOS was the original free operating system :-)
> 
>     Since then they have spent big bucks making it hard to copy the 
> latest Windows.
> 
> Karl
> 
>>>   
Karl,
Don't forget CP/M and (for the scientific world) RSTS (DEC) and of 
course system 360 (IBM).
Joep





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