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On Tuesday 12 February 2002 07h44, Damian Counsell wrote:
These courses turned out to be very well run, carefully tested and graded Microsoft Office indoctrination classes. My mum has worked hard at them, enjoyed them immensely and made excellent progress. She has not been taught how to use a wordprocessor, but is brilliant with Word. She has no deep understanding of databases, but can do a dozen amazing things with Access before breakfast etc etc. Now she is the computer goddess at work.
I walked out of the MCSE crammer when the guy insisted that MS had invented the GUI and was the first DOS. He told me C/PM wasn't a true OS and that the
But all the bits in CP/M (and for that matter MP/M and CP/Net) actually worked, which is more than can be said for the rather bad *copy*, known as QDOS which Microsoft branded MS-DOS.
mouse and windows-like environments (Apple, Amstrad et al) weren't GUIs. He
Obviously never seen anything made by Atari, Acron or Commodore either. Even a Sinclair QL is better than Windows V1.
did have the grace to admit that Novell was a network OS.
Hope they payed their dues to the estate of a certain E. Blair (Better known as G. Orwell)... -- Mark Evans St. Peter's CofE High School Phone: +44 1392 204764 X109 Fax: +44 1392 204763