My computer education began on Vterms, in a shell I wasn't even aware of, to cut cards to actually execute code. A black period in history, literally. I had no idea what was going on.
Then DOS and Unix via command line, with a side order of assembly, which turned on the lights.
First GUI was Win3.1, which was decidedly half baked sitting atop DOS, and only 3.11 ever ran "stable".
Along about Win95, I finally built and brought up an Xterm on Solaris and then Slack, and even though decidedly complex, stability ruled, if I did my part.
At that point, all variants of Winderz appeared as what they were, foolish piles of code atop a bastard unstable variant of cutdown Unix, namely DOS.
Some relief with Win2K, at least much of the paging and error recovery of Unix made it in, the boxes COULD...MAYBE, recover from a problem, some of the time.
The odd part is Android now. It is Unix, pure and simple, and it OUGHT to be stable and predictable, but Android is as half baked as Win 3.1 on all my toys.
I wonder if Billgates prays to the Google Gods every night, for finally achieving...equality...tween Winderz and "Unix"?
Back on topic, I CAN'T WAIT to load an Android Unix shell atop Winderz, which is a Mac shell atop DOS, which is the barest rudimentqary Unix to begin with. FOUR chances PER KEYSTROKE, to waste time crashing!
post edited by Jay Tee 4303 - 2014/01/10 15:29:49