-=> On 08-20-08 07:50, Joe Bruchis wrote to Roger Nelson <=-

 JB> Roger Nelson wrote in a message to Roy Witt:

 RN> OS/2 was.  Most of the programs I ran within it from 1992-1995 were
 RN> DOS programs.

 JB> Which web browsers and email programs have OS/2 versions these
 JB> days?

Firefox 2 and 3, to start with... there's also thunderbird, too... i
won't even mention php, mysql, and other mainstream server apps ;)

 RN> True enough, but there still remains some cases (and there
 RN> shouldn't) where if the www is omitted, you won't wind up with
 RN> anything more than a google-type search result page(s).  Generally
 RN> speaking, the http:// and www should be automatically added.  I
 RN> noticed that dictionary.com does not require www.  There are
 RN> probably many others.

 JB> If DNS is not correctly configured, the full name would be
 JB> needed. Windoz does that for us.

sadly, that's part of the problem, too :?

and it isn't "windows" but the apps, themselves... nothing more than the
dumbing down of everything to make it easy for the (lower then) average
joe[sic] ;)

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... Quit laughing before you piss me off; that wasn't supposed to be funny.