From: mutazilah@gmail.com   
      
   "Scott Lurndal"  wrote in message   
   news:CLGzP.935496$t84d.363634@fx11.iad...   
      
   > >and I never heard anyone call it a toy at the time.   
   >   
   > Then you weren't listening.   
      
   I was - I was listening to people who were actually using   
   MSDOS to do productive work.   
      
   Telling me what productive work they had done.   
      
   They didn't tell me they spent the whole day getting paid   
   to play with a toy.   
      
      
   And regardless, English is DEFINED by common usage.   
      
   The Wikipedia people have correctly used the term:   
      
   https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MS-DOS   
      
   MS-DOS acronym for Microsoft Disk Operating System, also known as Microsoft   
   DOS) is an operating system   
      
   https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operating_system   
      
   For around five years, the CP/M (Control Program for Microcomputers) was the   
   most popular operating system for microcomputers   
      
      
      
   You are free to update that and insist "CP/M is a toy, not an operating   
   system",   
   but it will be reverted very quickly, because you are wrong, and they are   
   right.   
      
   If you want to be understood by others, you need to create your   
   own term that would exclude MSDOS.   
      
   You could perhaps go with "a REAL (TM) You-Beaut Operating   
   System as approved by Scott and Dan and various other sophists -   
   wankers like Tim Patterson and others can go fuck themselves".   
      
   Or you can go with some other term.   
      
   But "operating system" is already taken, I'm afraid.   
      
   I'm not sure what your goal is by insisting on changing the   
   term. I get it. There are better operating systems than   
   QDOS etc. So? Why do you feel the need to keep pointing   
   that out, to the point of even illegitimizing them? Why are   
   you trying to put the authors down? Are you one of these   
   hypocritical Christians who instead of "turning the other cheek"   
   or "loving thy enemy" you instead "attack the innocent" and   
   hope that when you get to the Pearly Gates you'll fall   
   back on the "Jesus has me covered, right?" copout and expect   
   some god to not bellow with laughter?   
      
   BFN. Paul.   
      
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