[arachne] Re: Users and Wizards

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Glenn Gilbreath Jr. said:


> Speaking of optimizing, think for a minute...how many typical PC users
> would know WHAT an AUTOEXEC.BAT and CONFIG.SYS are?  If one of these
> people did decide to try and run DOS, the best to hope for is maybe
> getting them to run MEMMAKER or other automatic optimizing utility.

That is an excellent point. Managing memory will be a subject that is
completely foreign most computer users today.

>
> We need to face facts...the computer world is geared towards Windows and
> to some degree Apple OSX, with only a smidgen of Linux.

My son is a freshly minted electrical engineer who's been hired by a
major computer manufacturer to write firmware for their line of
servers. He's told me that few of his engineering friends will use
Windows unless they have to and most do not use Linux. Macs are the
computer of choice for personal use. I've tried to get him interested
in taking a look at Arachne since he will be working in C, but he thinks
that the idea of anyone still using DOS is "quaint". He doesn't understand
why anyone would try to run something in 640k when most likely they
have dozens if not hundreds of megs of RAM available.

Arachne needs to directly address at least yesterday's hardware and not
worry about hardware that was obsolete fifteen years ago.


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