"Warp" <war### [at] tagpovrayorg> wrote in message
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> Bill DeWitt <bde### [at] cflrrcom> wrote:
> :     Windows is the standard,
>
>   Standard of what?

    That is the question isn't it? Those objecting seem to assume that we
mean standard of excellence, then call us stupid because of that. It is just
a standard, like 1/4x20 threads on a bolt. You rarely see 33/64x19 threads
on a bolt. Why? Because you have to have standards. If you are going to make
an OS, you should use some standard to compare it to, you can either say it
is faster than Windows or slower, easier than Windows or harder, more
efficient or less. You could also use UNIX, as Linux does when they compare
the various distributions, ie: It is closer to UNIX or further away in this
or that quality. Just because you have 1/4x20 bolts doesn't mean you can't
have 3/4x10s.

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