On Thu, 7 Dec 2000 07:24:56 -0500, "Bill DeWitt" <bde### [at] cflrrcom>
wrote:

>    Windows is the standard, evidenced by the way Mac tried for so long to
>supplant it but then finally became Windows compatible, not to mention Linux
>windowing systems...

LOL!!!

Every time I start to wonder why Windows is so widespread, I hear or
read something like this from someone like you and I realise it...
though I still do not understand it. Good marketting and
advertismenent is one thing, but successfully fooling millions into
believing myths calls for a marketting genius (which Gates seems to
be). Or do you not know that it has always been Windows that has
replicated ideas from the Mac GUI?

As for those among you who don't know, there's no such thing as a
Linux windowing system. There's no such thing as a Unix windowing
system either, for those of you who still don't make the difference.
It's the X windowing system and it is an entity as separate from the
OS. And Windows has a long way to go before it reaches the standards
of X in stability and device independence, not to mention remote
terminal sessions.


Peter Popov ICQ : 15002700
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