[ Quoting Jack Stein to Scott Little ]
 SL> Oh? Find me 10 examples where small = always fast.
I didn't word that too well... :(
 JS> OS2 Commander, faster and more features than any gui file/directory
 JS> manager OS2TSR, (330 bytes) small and fast time slice manager
 JS> OPUS, 220k full featured BBS
 JS> I could go on all day.
I worded the challenge a bit wrong. I meant, "find me 10 examples where 
smaller
is faster than larger". You just listed small and fast. I wanted you to also
prove that they couldn't possibly be any faster if they were bigger.
 JS> Now you name 10 large programs where large = fast?
I said name examples, not programs. I gave two examples before, describing
sort, and file conversion algorithms. Bigger was faster.
 JS> DOS was a BAD implimentation of the current level of OS technology when
 JS> first sold to the HOME user.
 SL> And was the XT capable of much more?
 JS> Yes.
Oh? And just how much was it capable of then?
 JS> Unix is no harder to learn than DOS for a single user, non-networked
 JS> system, and actually easier to learn for those situations too.
I doubt that.
 SL> But I have since found that OS2 is a NON-OO CLI based OS. WPS
 SL> is a shell, and OO is all within the WPS.
 JS> Close enough.
What do you mean close enough? Where am I even lightly wrong.
 SL> Perhaps if OS2 had applications of the calibre that Windows
 SL> has, people (eg. me) would use it.
 JS> I know, Egghead is loaded with "high calibre" Win junkware.
 SL> And you point is... ? Since when is Windows software junk?
 JS> Always has been.
Proof please. I need the names of big name Windows applications that you find
crap, and tell me exactly why you think so.
 JS> DOS hasn't changed a lick since around 2.1, other than a few kludges
 JS> to keep it working at all in modern equipment, and the WIN kludge, a
Wasn't it the OS2 crowd saying that all new OS2 apps run on old versions of
OS2? Doesn't that sound something like OS2 not changing terribly much?
 SL> I'm sure you have the same opinion when I tell you I read in
 SL> last months issue of the APC stated that OS2 was dead.
 JS> Some things are obviously false, this is one of them.  Hard to say
 JS> what reader  response articles mean.
They aren't reader responses. It was one of a set of "Myths Explained". Both
written by computer industry analysts.
 JS> The fact you built your own computer and had to steal WIN does not
 JS> make WIN the most pirated software on earth
Who said I stole it? And I read that it was the most pirated piece of 
software,
I didn't make it up.
 SL> Why not? It can be removed no worries.
 JS> The retailers will not remove move it, you buy the pc, you buy
 JS> DOS/WIN.
They can remove it. But they will usually have to sell the new OS as extra,
along with Windows.
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