I can only hope infinitely long. What was the point of the book 1984 again? In which a government (substitute company) controls all your thought, speech, text and everything? Also, I can't connect my wisp628 to Google easily. On 28/01/07, Tony Smith wrote: > > On 26/01/07, Tony Smith wrote: > > > WINDOZE 85% > > > SOLARIS 10% > > > OTHER 5% (AS400, whatever they run) > > > > IBM naming is pretty simple. It runs either > > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_AIX_%28operating_system%29 (IBM's > > unix) or http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OS/400. > > > My point was that getting hung up on the OS is often pointess, it's the > application that matters. In the case of the AS400, I never interact with > the OS, it could run CPM for all I care. Same for Windows versions really, > it often doesn't matter. > > I do a lot of MS Office work, so in theory I should care that Macs do things > a little differently than Windows (eg dates in Excel), but reality it's > never come up. > > 99.9% of this list cares about their OS, but that figure doesn't extend out > into the real world... > > Besides, how long before we all run our apps off Google? > > Tony > > -- > http://www.piclist.com PIC/SX FAQ & list archive > View/change your membership options at > http://mailman.mit.edu/mailman/listinfo/piclist > -- http://www.piclist.com PIC/SX FAQ & list archive View/change your membership options at http://mailman.mit.edu/mailman/listinfo/piclist