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In comp.os.linux.advocacy, DFS wrote on Mon, 20 Jun 2005 23:48:12 -0400

is probably as good a place as any to look up this genus, which among other things includes

PET C64 C128 Amiga Vic-20

The Amiga was probably the most interesting but the C64 may very well be the most prevalent (since it was slightly cheaper).

And yes, it's pretty geeky.

And this of course proves that we should be all using the best OS (which is of course Microsoft Windows *) precisely why?

I'm not sure what will happen, especially since there are other considerations. E.g. Osama bin Laden is still out there and may be mobilizing an army against us to take over the Washington establishment and install an Islamic government there. Such is probably extremely unlikely but I for one can't say it's impossible.

A more logical alternative is a worldwide credit crash of some sort. (Osama bin Laden is on record on wanting us to bankrupt ourselves, in the name of security.) Or perhaps we'll simply run out of fossil fuels.

Compared to happenstances such as these, information technology is very small potatoes.

What, really, is Linux? And for that matter, Windows? It's a buncha bits sitting on a highly flexible platform-control system (with at least 107 buttons, 3 on a small movable device, usually to the user's right). Without power, that system won't do much, and it won't matter if one has BlueHairpin or Debian Linux Captain or Novell RedHat (Extra Red and Green Hat Edition) or HURD 2.0 or FreeBSD 7.x on that system.

A bicycle and storage batteries might help to some extent, or one might use solar power at that point.

Oh yes it will. Longhorn and BlackComb are v+1 and v+2, where XP 2003 is v, as I understand it.

It's an interesting game Microsoft can play (and others can play it too; IBM in particular was using emulators for its popular OS-360 brand for awhile, on computers such as the 4341).

1 Promote protocol X, and sell it. 2 Promote protocol Y, an eventual replacement for X. 3 Implement Y on top of X. 4 Develop Y *not* on top of X, and release that as a patch. 5 One now has X and Y, two independent implementations. Now start implementing X in terms of Y. 6 Replace X with the X on Y. 7 At this time one can safely deprecate X.

Variants of this game have been played throughout the decade. The most recent variant is WinInet vs. WinHTTP, as far as I can tell;

The drivers in Windows are a bit of a mess; AIUI they've changed general structure three times since 1989 or thereabouts. However, that's not the part most users will be concerned about; a hardware driver, after all, is like the fuel injector control system on a modern car: it's invisible until it breaks, and unfixable by the average user when it does (though one hopes for an easily field-replaceable module to minimize repair costs).

In the case of Linux I'd frankly have to study it but I don't think the driver substructure has changed much, if at all, beyond the ability for Linux to do loadable modules sometime in 1.2 -- or was it 2.0?

* FSVO "best", of course.

-- It's still legal to go .sigless.