CHARLES ANGELICH wrote in a message to DAVID DRUMMOND:

CA>>>> .. DOS the Ghost in the Machine! 

DD>>> The point is Charles that DOS is no longer "the Ghost in
DD>>> the Machine". Many modern machines have never seen it.
DD>>> Very little will fit on a diskette any more so their use
DD>>> is becoming far less prevelant. Many new machines don't
DD>>> come with a floppy drive. 

CA> You always refer to "new machines". Do you not realize that new
CA> machines do _not_ outnumber machines in the installed base of
CA> computers out there in use today?

I wonder if a lot of folks that write some of the software out there today
even consider that...

Seems to me like that "need" to be right up there on the bleeding
edge is so important to some that they tend to assume that everybody else
feels the same way.



DD>>> Files are moved via networks, or those little USB memory
DD>>> drive thingies. 

CA> No person I know in the real world has a working intranet in their
CA> homes and no one I know in the real world owns one of those "little 
CA> USB memory drive thingies".

I've been seeing more mention of those lately in some places.  

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