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[John Clizbe]

James Gillespie wrote:
> Robert Hansen, Robert J. Hansen, and Robert H. Henson? I don't know if I
> can handle it.
>
> Bob Henson wrote:
>> I still miss DOS. Sadly I'm one of those forced to use Windows by
>> compatibility issues - Office for work, etc. However I do my best to
>> avoid Microsoft with Thunderbird, GnuPG/Enigmail, Firefox etc. At least
>> these let us add some security to the situation.
> 
>> Like John, I add a tad of security with Avast!, Spywareblaster and Spybot.
> 
> For better or worse I came to computing too late for DOS. 

Some of us predate DOS as in MS-DOS.

DOS before then was an IBM "Big Iron" OS for the 360 series dating from the
mid-1960s. See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DOS/360 for dusty history

Trivia: the Widipedia statement, "The Hacker's Jargon File incorrectly states
that GECOS (also known as GCOS) was copied from DOS/360, which was not the
case." is very correct. The GECOS field comes from Multics. Odd that ESR from
get basic unix history wrong.

> My next computer will run Linux. Thank you for your input.

'course, you could do a Mac or a Hackintosh (BIY or Psystar) and run OS X then
run Windows or Linux under Parallels.

-- 
John P. Clizbe                      Inet:John (a) Mozilla-Enigmail.org
You can't spell fiasco without SCO. hkp://keyserver.gingerbear.net  or
     mailto:pgp-public-keys at gingerbear.net?subject=HELP

Q:"Just how do the residents of Haiku, Hawai'i hold conversations?"
A:"An odd melody / island voices on the winds / surplus of vowels"

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