>> LOL! That great Unix tradition of eliding vowels at all costs...
> 
> along with the great Windows tradition of (a) picking different command 
> flags for commands ported from UNIX

I just love the way that you have to write a short Prolog program to 
discover the behaviour of most Unix commands for each given combination 
of switches.

(E.g., "-s" implies "-v" and "-c". "-k" disabled "-s". "-Q" reverses the 
sense of "-s". If "-L" is present then "-s" now controls something 
completely different. And if it's a Tuesday today then the "-R" switch 
is no-op...)

> (b) trying to make everything 
> fit in 8.3 a decade after they got rid of that restriction in all their 
> file systems.

Yeah, WTF is *that* about??

And *why* are there still programs who's installers and splash screens 
show up in dithered 256-colour or even 16-colour graphics when the 
entire civilized world has had 24-bit colour for a decade now?

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