>> You forget that it takes more time to startup, and people would (atleast in
>> theory) want something that starts in less than 1 minute.
>> I've only read 1 book for DOS users (and that was just to check it out for
>> an old school).
>
>The newbie users I saw didnt seemed to care. They said it was a
>"small price to pay for an easy computer".
I saw some specification somewhere (probably TCO-99) that a computer should
start in less than 20 secs (including OS). Makes it hard for other OSes
then DOS (and fine tuned Linux).
>> As explained earlier, this "language" is a very very short one and takes
>> very little time to learn (if someone is ready to teach it).
>
>I wander what other reasons they have for not wanting to learn
>even the few basic commands. Its one of the things that puzzle me.
>I often volenteered to teach how to use DOS, and in the simplest way.
>I even made a small course that will show how the DOS CLI is easy
>to use even then the GUI. However most people I tried to to teach
>just gave up somewhere in the middle or right in the start and
>went back to Windows. A few ran Norton Commander since then, and
>touched the command line itself only when it was to open multi-file
>ARJ archives.
I teached a group of around 10-20 students (they were 13 years old, I was
15 and the group always waried) and most of them seemed to like the course.
Espacially since they was allowed to play games at the school LAN that I
installed. Does where the days, only two of over 300 students where even
allowed to tuch the computers beeing on their own and I was the only one
with a key ;) Oh, playing WarCraft and DOOM I/II for as much as 10 hours a
day was fun too. <G>
>> We other are way behind (I'm close to 200 and only 4 others have "broken"
>> that "barrier")<G>
>
>Ok ok. I'll take a vacation. I'll try to shut up. <g>
>(funny that in real life I dont tend to talk that much.)
No need (IMO), imagine that you wouldn't write 1/13th of the mails would
dissapear (not to mention that you just don't say something like "I agree!"
so there are responses, like this one).
//Bernie
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