Re: FireFox, IE, and the Highland Council

On Sat, 04 Apr 2009 14:09:28 -0700, Fred J. McCall <fjmccall@xxxxxxxxx>
wrote:

Scotty <nobody@xxxxxxxx> wrote:
:
:At the time that M$ released Win 95, IBM released OS/2 and CNN run a
:comparison of the two. Downloading a single file the two were comparable
:but downloading two files simultaneously OS/2 completed the download in
:abt. half the time, probably because OS/2 was fully pre-emptive multi
:tasking and Windows had time slicing or some other ***... And Bill is the
:richest man in the world - there is no God. Marketing (and criminal
:tactics) is more powerful than Jesus, with apologise to John Lennon.
:</end rant>
:
Your timeline seems wrong, which makes your whole recollection
suspect.

Since you know more about OS/2 than I do, you should have realised that the
version of OS/2 almost concurrent with W95 was version 3, OS/2 v3. I wasn't
writing a Wiki page!

I first used OS/2 v1.1 (I think) but certainly v1.3, in the mid '80s
because an Antenna design package that we needed, required it.

OS/2 1.x was released in the late 1980s and was contemporary with
Windows 2.x. Windows 2.x used something called 'cooperative
multitasking' where it was up to each application program to return
the execution thread to the executive so that the next program in line
could execute. OS/2 1.x used preemptive multitasking by playing some
games with '286 protected mode. OS/2 1.x was jointly developed by IBM
and Microsoft. In point of fact, Windows NT 3.1 was originally
supposed to be OS/2 3.0.

The other way around. M$ were contracted by IBM to write the code to an IBM
spec. There wasn't enough money in it so M$ reneged on the contract and
shortly afterwards released NT which used as much of the IBM IP as was not
protected. Most of what M$ knew about Operating systems came (was stolen)
from IBM. It is widely believed that NT was in the skunk works all along.

Remember, the only thing Bill Gates and Roy Allan had achieved pre IBM was
a hacked version of BASIC (stolen) and their first Operating system, DOS
1.0 was a hacked version of someone else's (also stolen). Put quotes
around stolen if you prefer. BG has never had a original thought in his
life.

M$ still doesn't have a journaling file system and the file system promised
is about 5 years past due. After abt 8 years of development and many
promises, Vista has been recognised by Enterprises as inadequate and failed
in the market place, so a new, better one is being promised, Windows 7.

I use XP and every second Tuesday of the month I get abt 30 megs of
"Security fixes", an 8 year old operating system still in development.

That might all be internet wisdom but entirely consistent with the morals,
ethics and engineering skill we have all come to hate. It is also
unimportant and irrelevant because today we have what we have, roughly 1
billion uses using a mono culture, as result of M$'s criminal marketing
tactics (ask the Supreme Court) that screams from the rooftops, "come and
get me".

Crap "design", crap "coding", crap, crap, crap

SpyBot now claims to detect in excess of 300,000 viruses, trojans, worms
and root kits, FFS. And I am a mild mannered guy but I do hate mediocrity.

As I said, you seem somewhat confused about things...

Probably more than you imaging...
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