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   > I am a bit of fuddy duddy.  Always have been.   
   > If something ain't broke, don't fix it.   
   > It something works, leave it alone.   
      
   If that's "fuddy duddy," sign me up!   
      
   > I'll be used to some program/app/os and can use with my eyes closed.   
   > Then some wiseguy programmer changes this, that and other and have a   
   > learning curve to make.  Need to learn the new way since the old way doesn't   
   > work.  --sigh--   
   > I can see changes for bugs and things, but not change just for the sake   
   > of change.   
      
   Bill Gates started that -- his real genius wasn't programming -- it was    
   marketing.   
      
   Now Marketing gets a heavy say in what changes get done -- not necessarily   
   for  the benefit of the buyer/user, as we've both seen.   
      
   Also, I believe the DOD & other powers-that-be support Microsoft, & some    
   changes are from them & completely inimical to the buyers/users, if they only    
   knew.   
      
   >> I remember when it was ALL DOS & it was good!   
   > Same here, but I don't think I would want to go back to that.   
   > I'm too lazy with point and click, having multiple windows open, etc.   
   > Now that is one change that I did like.  :)   
      
   I include Windows 3.11 as "DOS" as it was just a GUI overlay to DOS; I mainly    
   used it to have two DOS prompts easily switched to & from (in one I had my    
   QWK/SOUP reader, in the other I could do list searches in my 1000s of text    
   files for what I wanted to import into a message.   
      
   Occasuionally I'd use my BBS dialer to connect somewhere to look some thing   
   up  or ask someone I knew there, while I had a QWK open in the other DOS   
   session.   
      
   Ahh, simple, yet good, times. . .   
      
   & secure! Anyone tried to sneak into my system simultaneous to my use, to    
   "observe" would find my DOS-baszed system laughing at them as they vainly    
   attempted to overlay/enter. . .   
      
   If they(adware, spyware, random phreak HTML/ANSI bomb, et al) cracked it    
   anywhere, my system was trained to shut right off. Then I took a day or two    
   offline to do other things.   
      
   Now the new Windows allows this similtameous sharing of MY system resources,    
   thus messing with my ability to have maximum use of my owm computer!   
      
   Pisses me off. I paid good hard-earned money for this.   
      
   Oh well, such is the world.  The rich & powerful in the leadership cabals   
   seek  to have maximum information+control over the domains they've claimed.   
      
   I'm fine with that, sort of, just so long as they let me alone to do my own    
   thing.   
   --- BBBS/Li6 v4.10 Toy-5   
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