[mdlug] how would you teach a class?

[Aaron Kulkis]

Garry Stahl wrote:
> Jay Nugent wrote:
>> Greetings,
>>
>> On Thu, 9 Jul 2009, Aaron Kulkis wrote:
>>
>>   
>>> Garry Stahl wrote:
>>>     
>>>> Aaron Kulkis wrote:
>>>>       
>>>>> What's really sad is that they continue to hang on to
>>>>> the semantics and other artifacts of that horrid
>>>>> abortion of a commmand line interface (drive letters, etc.)
>>>>>   
>>>>>         
>>>> Drive letters suck, agreed.  The UNIX drive system is much, MUCH
>>>> better.  However, DOS in general was decent command line.
>>>>       
>>> It was always a pale imitation of Unix.
>>>
>>> Even as Microsoft was selling DOS and deriding Unix as
>>> being an OS of "difficult command names with hard to remember
>>> options", every version of DOS came closer and closer to
>>> Unix (while always fundamentally missing some basic
>>> concepts, such as concurrent execution)
>>>     
>>    I recall a friend running Digital Research DOS (DRdos), and every time
>> DRdos had a new feature (an added UNIX-like command) Microsoft DOS would
>> come out with a bastradized simi-functioning version of the exact same
>> thing about 6 months later.  It was obvious they were playing catch-up
>> with DRdos, and DRdos was becoming more and more like UNIX.
>>   
> 
> De come of wid a feature, wes come up wid the same feature, but worse! 
> But we calls if betta we pays da press to praise it and da public
> believes it.  Dats da Microsoft way ,and don't yous forgets it.
> 

Yup.  And every idiot computer writer in the country toed the line.