From: Mike '/m' 


I'm not necessarily in disagreement with you on this, I just wanted to
highlight our area of agreement.

On the other hand, how much does the name really matter?  What does the
word "Quicken" (a successful program) have to do with home
finance?  What does Outlook Distress have to do with email and news
reading?

 /m

On Sat, 30 Nov 2002 22:22:30 -0500, "Geo."  wrote:

>Thank you, that part about "until recently" is the only
reason we are making
>this point about naming software.
>
>Geo.
>
>"Mike '/m'"  wrote in message
>news:9cjiuusp58hhndf7elnvrnonvh54mrssdi{at}4ax.com...
>>
>> Not frozen in time.  Just a different target audience until recently.
>>
>>  /m
>>
>> On Sat, 30 Nov 2002 14:45:35 -0500, "Geo."
 wrote:
>>
>> >I didn't forget the origins, however NT started out with the Win 3.1 UI
>on
>> >it and that has now become XP so what's the problem? Is unix frozen in
>time
>> >or something?
>> >
>> >Geo.
>> >
>> >"Mike '/m'"  wrote in message
>> >news:mtvhuu84ajsjq26vku5qggpvln6okt6svh{at}4ax.com...
>> >>
>> >> You forget the origins of the two OS's you have compared.  DOS was
>> >> created as a general-use "OS" (I'm using
"OS" very liberally here...).
>> >> UNIX was created in the world of techies, by and for techies.
>> >>
>> >> So comparing "dir" with "ls" is not
an appropriate comaprison.
>> >>
>> >>  /m
>> >>
>> >>
>> >> On Thu, 28 Nov 2002 14:55:21 -0500, "Geo."
 wrote:
>> >>
>> >> >I'd expect that from a guy named /m 
>> >> >
>> >> >Geo.
>> >> >
>> >> >"Mike '/m'"  wrote in message
>> >> >news:3b4cuuk55ftrhujkdgcq6mrpc3emp1qv0c{at}4ax.com...
>> >> >> On Wed, 27 Nov 2002 21:41:19 -0500,
"Geo."  wrote:
>> >> >>
>> >> >> > Even dos used "dir" which was short for
>> >> >> >directory, on unix they use "ls"
for list when they could have just
>> >used
>> >> >> >"list", but nooo... that would be
100% more typing..
>> >> >>
>> >> >>
>> >> >> And your point is?
>> >> >>
>> >> >> I like the shorter command names.
>> >> >>
>> >> >>  /m
>> >> >>
>> >> >>
>> >> >>
>> >> >
>> >>
>> >
>>
>

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