On Saturday 28 July 2001 06:48 pm, Judith Miner wrote:
> Sridhar wrote:
I taught myself MS-DOS when I was three years old. Since I had no
>
> previous conceptions on what an OS should be like, I learned rather
> easily. <<
>
> Surely you must realize that you were a very unusual three-year-old. For
> one thing, you must have known how to read and spell, as well as how to
> use a keyboard. Most three-year-olds can't read and spell at all, or if
> at all, not well enough to use a text-based operating system like
> MS-DOS. And then, once you start it, what do you do with it? Most
> three-year-olds aren't interested in playing with commands at a command
> prompt.<g> They want to run Jumpstart Preschool or Reader Rabbit or
> Sesame Street. They want to do it the way my granddaughter does: start
> the computer; after Windows starts, put the CD into the CD-ROM drive;
> the program autostarts; click your way through it; click on whatever
> ends it when you're done--the voices tell you what to do. Want to run
> something else? Put that CD into the drive and repeat the above.
> Computers in 1985, which is probably about when you started, were a lot
> different than they are today, and so are operating systems.
Sridhar,
Is it true that you weren't allowed to use pointy objects like scissors? And,
since then, fate had decided you enter the world of software rather than
hardware? Ouch!
Roman
