Corrections and Clarifications:

From the stalwart defender of Mississippi, Patrick Carver of the Ole Miss Conservative comes the following:

Dear Terry,

Howdy from Patrick Carver! I hope you and your's are doing well. Now, with pleasantries aside... ;-)

Uh-oh.

In your recent post entitled "Thanks, Fritz" you make the comment, "Yeah, Windows XP is just wonderful--but in the end, it's still just a fancy version of MS DOS." I'm afraid, sir, that this is incorrect and, quite frankly, I expected better from the Opossumus Maximus of the Axis of Weevil.

Well, right now I believe we have found the source of the problem--never expect better.

You could call Windows 3.1, 95, 98, and the accursed Millenial Edition (ME) fancy versions of MS-DOS, since, well, that's what they were. However, XP isn't MS-DOS based. Beginning with Windows NT, Microsoft created a new and more stable kernel, which is the operating system's core.

I feel so...so...unconcerned. Remember, computers and I are not really that compatible, so anything that says Windows on it says to me that it will occasionally have to be given the Three Finger Salute to unfreeze it and it's still gonna have a C:\ and a flashing cursor somewhere in the mix, which seems DOSsy enough for me.

That's right, all this a-maizing technology is controlled by corn. "A-maizing"! get it? Boy, I'm too clever.

By half.

Anyway...NT begat Windows 2000 which begat XP which begat a lot of money for Mr. Gates. Hopefully this explanation with [sic] clarify things for you.

Yeah, yeah--XP is not a fancy version of DOS...

It's a SUPER fancy version, much like a Karmann Ghia, or a McDonald's with an indoor PlayLand.

And now for some reason, I feel like "Nick Burns, Your Company's Computer Guy." http://www.nwfusion.com/columnists/2000/0117cooler.html

Ta-ta for now,
Patrick Carver

Thank you, Patrick, for bringing this to our attention. The Possumblog Editorial Staff stand ready to make corrections of any substantive factual errors in the content herein. We ask that in this instance the offending two-letter suffix be seen more as an artistic foil rather than as indicative of actual performance or construction of the computer hardware and/or software in question. We do beg your indulgence at our obvious lack of technical knowledge and remind each of you that this journal is composed using a Tandy 5000.
posted by Terry at 8:42:00 AM