Invisible wrote:
> Darren New wrote:
>> Invisible wrote:
>>> M$ has somehow succeeded in convincing people that it is somehow 
>>> "normal" for computers to not work correctly.
>>
>> Not really. Personal computers never worked consistently right. 
>> Mainframes, yes, but not micros or PCs.  (And by PC, I mean everything 
>> from TRS-80 to Apple ][ to Commodore PET to ...)
> 
> Or rather, you mean "any computer that hasn't really worked right"? :-P

BTW, I'm not sure where Microsoft comes into this, except as being the first 
popular OS that ran on hardware they didn't make themselves. When your PSU 
is flakey and it makes your video card crash your video card driver with 
spurious interrupts, somehow it's Microsoft that gets blamed.

As someone who drove college cars in college, it didn't take Microsoft to 
convince me that if you have POS hardware, you're going to spend most 
weekends underneath it fixing it. :-)

-- 
   Darren New, San Diego CA, USA (PST)
   "Ouch ouch ouch!"
   "What's wrong? Noodles too hot?"
   "No, I have Chopstick Tunnel Syndrome."

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