Operating Systems

[smeezekitty]

word processing i can understand
but spread sheets have no use at home

[BC_Programmer]

word processing i can understand
but spread sheets have no use at home

you have no use.

were you around when CGA was "Primary"?

I have yearbooks going from 1960 to 1990. and the focus of all the computer-related progress was business and learning applications.

[smeezekitty]

I have yearbooks going from 1960 to 1990. and the focus of all the computer-related progress was business and learning applications.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_Personal_Computer not for bussness use

were you around when CGA was "Primary"?

no

[squall_01]

What?  I dont use it a whole lot but mainly for bussiness data plotting an classes an such like that.

[BC_Programmer]

Sorry but I'm more apt to believe the articles made at the time then wikipedia.

[smeezekitty]

http://www.google.com/search?q=ibm+pc&hl=en&client=firefox-a&rls=org.mozilla%3Aen-US%3Aofficial&hs=0DY&tbo=1&site=mbd&tbs=cdr%3A1%2Ccd_min%3A1970%2Ccd_max%3A1990&tbo=1
the main uses was games and word processing

[BC_Programmer]

"games" was not a target feature, and never was.

[Aegis]

but spread sheets have no use at home

You tell the thousands of people who use them to track finances and bills at home.

[squall_01]

Sorry but I'm more apt to believe the articles made at the time then wikipedia.

Point proven

[smeezekitty]

You tell the thousands of people who use them to track finances and bills at home.

evreyone i know does it on paper

[Salmon Trout]

smeezekitty has the typical Aspie trait of thinking he is the only person in the world, and that "everybody I know" is equivalent to "everybody", and that "everything I know" [or think I know] is equivalent to "everything". Unfortunately it is also a key trait of bumptious twerps with too much time on their hands.

[squall_01]

exatly, excel or lotus 1,2,3 was suppose to remove that which it has.  I keep two coppies of mine a hand written one an one on my machine.

[smeezekitty]

smeezekitty has the typical Aspie trait of thinking he is the only person in the world, and that "everybody I know" is equivalent to "everybody", and that "everything I know" [or think I know] is equivalent to "everything".

that doesnt bother me

Unfortunately it is also a key trait of bumptious twerps with too much time on their hands.

this does and this is my last post on this thread

[BC_Programmer]

Point proven

heh, ironically enough.

Really, for something historical like that- you simply cannot trust the internet at all.

Take the common held misconception that Bill gates said "640K should be enough for everybody" but he didn't. this lie is perpetuated by the internet and those who take whatever is said anywhere on it as gospel.

In either case- If I had to choose between, say, learning about world war 2 from a book written a year ago, compared to run written during and after the war, I'd have to choose the latter, although it would likely be devoid of facts known later on- those it did contain would probably be true (or at the very least NOT entirely based on conjecture).


The main thing NOT to look up on wikipedia is "controversial" stuff. Take the evolution article for instance...

[squall_01]

sort of what I was meaning about the whole thing.  It just varies on the matter at hand.