Unless they explain it like the RFC's do, ie: protocol:user:pass:wotsit:morewotsit prompt:/command -argument I think that's picking a bit too much though, you certainly didn't need to have access to a command line to do the paper, so it doesn't fit under this remit. On Fri, 04 Jul 2003 17:39:38 +0100, Alex Brett wrote
This year I sat AQA AS Computing. Module 2 (which incidentally was one of the worst written exam papers ive seen - it even had a question where they gave you an algorithm that didn't actually work!) had a question about file systems and it basically said the following is typed into a personal computer then asked questions about what each bit of the file path etc meant and what type of file each one was (i.e. ASCII and binary). It explained what the type command did but that was all:
C:\> type c:\myproject\source\source.pas some pascal program
C:\> type c:\myproject\build\build.bld some random symbols
Now isn't this technically disadvantaging non M$ users as they may not have heard of C:\ and not have a clue what it means (I know it's unlikely but isn't this still linking to M$ too much?
Alex Brett alex.brett@brettcomputers.co.uk
On 4 Jul 2003 at 8:40, Richard Rothwell wrote:
--- Terry Taylor
wrote: Are you telling us, therefore, that the exam boards are collaborating with Microsoft to shut out the competition? Furthermore, are you telling us that they are all doing this together? That would be a first!
There doesn't have to be collaboration - if the exam boards have written their exams, mark schemes or their syllabuses in such a way that either:
* schools have to or feel they have to purchase MS software --------or--------- * pupils of schools using non-MS products are penalised
then this is clearly anti-competitive behaviour. Whether it is illegal or not depends on the view of the lawyers!
Example....
if a mark scheme in a GCSE paper only credits an MS function syntax is this anti-competitive?
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