[arachne] Re: Arachne for Linux...

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On Wed, 18 Jun 2008, Ray Andrews wrote:


I dunno Rob, I think you're jumping to conclusions, I didn't detect
any 'attitude' from Brian either way. Me, I'm severely (but only partialy)
dyslexic and I treat it as a matter of simple fact -- but I *vastly*
prefer CLI just the same.



Ray,
 Sorry if I jumped to conclusions. I was refering to previous
discussions, regarding dyslexia. See excerpts below. I just
seem to see so much anti everything nonDOS on this list. I
didn't subscribe just for DOS, but for Arachne. Arachne was
the first software I was ever able to install by myself and
it's still some of my most favored. DOS was the first system
I ever installed, and enjoyed it thoroughly. I would like to
use Arachne in my systems of choice though, the same systems
MP uses. I would like to see Arachne survive. Since I would
like to see Arachne for Linux developed further, it perturbs
me to know that any potential Linux developers checking out
this list, would prolly think, 'what a bunch of elitist old
DOS curmudgeons', and leave. Even though I have an absolute
hatred of M$ and it's business practices, and I believe most
users of their software to be quite clueless of computers,
but no more clueless than most car and truck owners who
wouldn't know how to replace their torque converter, I do not
consider them "dummies". They've merely had flaky software
foisted upon them by a ruthless monopoly. I guess I harbored
a special resentment towards two people, because I never
knew I had severe dyslexia until I was 50 years old and started
school. I found out there. It didn't stop me from not having to
take English or Literature, because I only missed one thing on
the entrance exam. I forgot a period at the end of a sentence.
I was the only one I know of who got out of that. I finished
at the top of seven speech classes, and close to the top in
algebra and technical math. I was the only one old enuff to
go into a bar after class in my academics. I finished at the
top of all but one of my Computer Science, and at the top of
all my electronic classes. Also the only one to ever get perfect
scores on midterms and finals at the school in the tech classes.
I finished in the upper two percent of the nation. State Farm
headquarters, Caterpillar, Verizon, ISU, and UofI send their
people there to be trained. I have a VERY large library, mostly
tech stuff, physics and ALL the other sciences too. My sisters
who are severely dyslexic, graduated from big schools, in medicine
and molecular chemistry, cum laude, 4.00. Being dyslexic didn't
stop them from joining Mensa. So instead of getting too pissed
at the ignorance I read, and being an abnormal retarded illiterate
that knows nothing of his computer.
au figgered awd fead the troles.
Rob

P.S. excerpts follow pass them on by if you wish.

WIZ:  thanks for your historical note that may indeed explain why certain
changes were made.  My problem is the opposite of the Windows users.  I am
not dyslexic or illiterate or retarded and unlike the former, I want to
deal with all files by name, rather than with a GUI or pseudo GUI.  I
function very well in normal DOS where everything is in text and the entire
system is visible.  I don't function at all when the "works" is hidden by a
GUI OR PSEUDO gui.

Perhaps the development team needs to pay more attention to the radically
differnt needs of dyslexics and text oriented people.  Certainly a browser
liked by dyslexics is not likely to be liked by literate people and visa
versa.
Steve Jobs, a dyslexic, designed the Mac operating system (a well designed and nearly flawless operating system despite several upgrades) with a mandatory GUI to enable himself and other dyslexics to deal efficiently with computers. Fortunately for the rest of us Steve Jobs never tried to make all normal, literate, text oriented people use his Mac operating system, which is counterintuitive to most normal, text oriented people.
Bill Gates is also a dyslexic and he made a series of bad copies of the Mac Operating system for the several versions of Windows to date, all of which have been noted for serious flaws. Unfortunately for all normal, non-dyslexic people Bill Gates decided that if Windows was good enough for Dyslexics it was good enough for normal people as well.
A few literate, non-dyslexic people do manage to function well in Windows, and I both envy them and wish them well.
Unfortunately most non-dyslexic Windows users struggle hard with the counteruitive GUI and can do very little in Windows beyond running a browser. Most of them can do none of the things a DOS user does many times a day, like zipping and unzipping files, changing pitch and margins on an editor or word processor, or moving quickly from application to application to perform their requisite work.
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