[geeks] Recommendations?

[Sridhar the POWERful]

On Sun, 7 Apr 2002, Dave McGuire wrote:

> > >If people that HAVE to use Windows would use add/remove programs
> > >properly, not install crap they dont need, uninstall crap they dont
> > >use, etc, windows can be a GREAT web browser/SSH terminal-system.
> >
> > There's some good reason the built-in "telnet" doesn't do
> > vt100 properly, right?
>
>   There are several reasons.  Pick one:
>
>    1 - Microsoft couldn't program their way out of a wet paper bag
>    2 - They're too busy writing bad specs to actually read the good ones
>    3 - Windows is so horribly bloated that parsing VT100 escape
>        sequences consumes too many precious CPU cycles, so they "left a
>        few out"

Windows does VT100 just fine, but you have to turn somersaults to tell it
to do so.

Peace...  Sridhar