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

[Steve Lamb]

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.

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