Re: HTML Programs

At 08:22 AM 6/28/00 -0400, you wrote:
> > An interesting question -for you PC people out there....did you have to 
> learn
> > DOS in order to run Windows?  Would it be nice to know DOS if you ever got
> > *in trouble* and needed to go into the guts of the OS?  Yeah!
I did learn DOS first, because we were always two and three generations 
behind in computers, and because the older 8088s (not to mention a whole 
flock of QX-10s) needed that kind of understanding. (And several 286 
machines are still in use here.) While I can and do go back into the DOS 
mode for certain things, (and my big nursing program written in Q-Basic has 
not yet been rebuilt in VB-6) It really confuses some of my users to even 
consider looking at a blank screen with a C:\ prompt staring at you.

But now I am looking at LINUX... and behold a mystery wrapped in an 
enigma... whit a whole weird way of doing things, and it is back to the 
basics again. Still the foundations of DOS set me on a plane where at least 
I know what they are doing at the machine level.

So no matter how good your site-manager-/editor software is, you still need 
to climb under the hood and fix things.


Br. Elias Thienpont OSB
http://www.assumptionabbey.com

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