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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
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