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Re: [Digital BW] Vista v. XP?? (Vista sucks)

2008-08-04 by Dana H. Myers

Roger wrote:
> 
> 
> I concur completely with the sentiments expressed below. Vista treats
> the user like an idiot, demanding that certain files be placed in "I
> know better what you want than you do" directories. I had my first
> desktop in 1977, a Digital Group machine (Z-80), so I consider myself
> reasonably experienced. Vista is so bad that I'm never going to buy
> another Windows machine. Never.

30 years in programming has taught me the folly of saying
"never".  "Dell will never ship AMD.  Intel will never work
with Sun." etc.

:-)

Dana (who pays the bills as a long-time Unix kernel developer,
but has ported CP/M-80, CP/M-86, MS-DOS and a few flavors of
Unix to a few different machines).

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