From: Chad Perrin <perrin@...>
Date: 2006-08-28T05:35:09+09:00
Subject: Re: Why Ruby does not nead an ide

On Mon, Aug 28, 2006 at 05:02:21AM +0900, David Vallner wrote:
> Hal Fulton wrote:
> >MSDOS
> 
> Hey, no touching *very* successful home gaming platforms - IIRC, the DOS 
> scene shined on for quite a while after Amigas fell into pitiful 
> stagnation. The low resource requirements and the "flexibility" that 
> direct everything access provided are probably to blame in a large part 
> for home computing as we know it today. Maybe the system didn't go the 
> Right Way, but it sure as hell went the Way that Worked.

This is true, but . . . I let the MSDOS comment slide because of other,
better versions of DOS.

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