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From: "Rod Speed" <rod.speed.aaa@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: [CM] Coding with dad on the Dragon 32
Date: Wed, 11 Nov 2015 06:28:11 +1100
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jmfbahciv <See.above@aol.com> wrote 
> gareth wrote
>> jmfbahciv <See.above@aol.com> wrote 

>>> That's (30 minutes boot-up) is horrid.  
>>> DEC would consider that a bug.

>> Any decent computer person worth her or his salt considers 
>> both Microsoft Windows and Unix and its spawns to be bugs.

> It all depends on what the owner of the system wants/needs.  Since
> TOPS-20 was not available for the general population, something 
> like MS or Apple's OS would be the preferred system on a PC.  

> MS' main problems were that they did not know how to 
> do memory management nor disk I/O management well 
> (BSODs and reinstalling system software very, very often).

Even more pig ignorant than you usually manage.