On Wed, 11 Sep 2013 10:14:24 -0700, Patrick Elliott wrote:

> True enough.. and, this is a perfect example imo of why, after the Apple
> II line, the whole thing went to shit - you no longer had to know how
> any of it worked, or, even on a hardware level, could find out (where
> Apple gave you a built in language, which you could boot to even without
> an OS, and a complete circuit diagram). The whole, "It will work if I
> reboot." thing is just.. gah! But, yeah, most people won't even try to
> comprehend the basics, and treat a PC likes is a big cell phone (and
> have done so since before cell phones).

Well, for most people, PCs are tools.  It's like driving a car - most 
people don't know how to fix them, but most people also know how to drive 
them (allegedly).

There are always those of us who want to see what's "under the hood", but 
most people don't really give a shit - they just want to do their job, 
and the tool they use helps them do it.

That's a lot of why Windows works the way it does.

Jim

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