Generic Win95/98 bashing (was Re: Linux installation...)

[richb at pioneer.ci.net (Rich Braun)]

Quoting the Globe, root at localdomain wrote:
> "The notion that an  operating
> system is distinguishable from an Internet browser and other software
> is simply idiotic."
>... 
> After deciding to get serious about
> upgrading  this  linux  system (which idiotically seems to still have
> several browsers that aren't part of the kernel)

I remember decades ago when I started using an operating system
disguised as a text editor...  It's called Emacs.  Not sure why anyone
would try to distinguish the two.

Oh silly me.  Microsoft products aren't all that different from my first 386
text-editing environment.  Its 4 megs contained about 3 megs of Emacs plus a
meg or so of Unix.  My latter-day peecee's 64 megs contain about 50 megs
of MS Office plus 10 megs or so of Win95.  (Which no doubt is further
broken down into 8 megs of browser plus 2 megs of O/S.)

Wonder why it takes a P333 with 64 megs to browse the net, when I can type
email like this and get better response on the Linux P133 with 16 megs sitting
next to it?

-rich