Re: OS other than Win

[Guy Murphy <guy-murphy@easynet.co.uk>]

Would that be PAL or NTSC television?

I'm watching a PAL TV, I suspect you might be watching an NTSC (right
acronym) TV.

Guy.

----- Original Message -----
From: "Bullard, Claude L (Len)" <clbullar@ingr.com>
To: "Guy Murphy" <guy-murphy@easynet.co.uk>; "'XML-DEV '"
<xml-dev@lists.xml.org>
Sent: Monday, July 09, 2001 5:12 PM
Subject: RE: OS other than Win


> The less I have to think about, the less I
> have to think.
>
> It should all be easy.  It must be easy.
> Who has time to keep up with different OSs?
> Homogeneity is where it is at now:  one
> closed world model on a standard platform,
> just like television.
>
> Len
> http://www.mp3.com/LenBullard
>
> Ekam sat.h, Vipraah bahudhaa vadanti.
> Daamyata. Datta. Dayadhvam.h
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Guy Murphy [mailto:guy-murphy@easynet.co.uk]
>
> Most places I've worked are a mix of of both flavours of Windows, and
> flavours of Unix, each chosen based upon it's suitability for the task.
>
> It's the standards that allow the different flavours and OSes to coexist
> side by side.
>
> To make casual assumptions with obviously little experience outside a
closed
> world about the usage of Unix is as silly as to make casual assumptions
> about the use of English, and simply brushing aside consideration of
> languages such as Spanish.
>
> I can fully understand how from some positions the world might appear to
be
> nearly completely English speaking, or all running Windows. It is however
a
> naive viewpoint, and not a good measure of reality.
>
> It's a rich and varied world out there, and I wouldn't be too quick to
> blinker yourself.
>