On 1999-06-02 [EMAIL PROTECTED] <Or Botton> said:
>I completly agree. In my opinion, and OS should arrive with a simple
>default user interface. Including a small and efficent file manager
>will also be nice, so you'll have something additional when starting
>with a freshly installed OS.
>All the extra additions at the choice of the user should be added
>later, externaly. This can also prevent the OS of being neccesarily
>a bloatware, and will also allow the user a wider range of choices
>as these extra additions can be made by third-parties.
Not many years ago, this was the practice. You bought a computer and an
operating system came with it, and that was all. My first computer (the
portable Sharp PC 4500) came with DOS 3.21. The only "extra" that came
along with it was a diagnostic utility specifically designed for the
computer. All you had to do was make a working copy of the OS, and you were
ready to go! There was Edlin, if you didn't have any other editor, and
there was GW-BASIC, if you needed to put together your own utilities.
Microsoft should have stuck with that basic setup. Keep DOS and always make
any other GUI or program a mere option.
Jerry
Internet Montana
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