OT: OS/2, Linux and Windows (was Re: TZ)

[Alexander Sarras]

On Wed, 22 Mar 2000 00:03:57 -0800, Steve Lamb wrote:

> On Wed, Mar 22, 2000 at 01:06:53AM -0500, Ralph Cohen wrote:
> > Personally, I've never seen an operating system so ideally designed for
> > mindless interaction as Windows9x.  It is strengthened by it's lack of
> > internal logic and immutable interface which keeps users from doing serious
> > harm.<g>
> 
>     Oh come on, Ralph, you know better than I do that Windows doesn't prevent
> the user from totally destroying the OS.  Meanwhile unix prevents them from
> doing it on the simple basis of permissions alone.  I /know/ I can't destroyo
> my system unless I am root.  I rarely, if ever, am root.
> 
Yeah, but he said: serious harm, didn't he? 
SaS
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