Quote from: Hueristic on February 15, 2017, 09:20:20 PM

Quote from: iCEBREAKER on February 15, 2017, 09:05:46 PM

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What does the anti-Trump FUD about Shkreli's friend have to do with the BTC ETF, and/or the inevitability of XMR ETFs?

You don't need to tell me about 8088 blah blah blah. I owned one.

10 years later, my work-study job was doing IT on campus. I supported OS2 and NT systems and so am aware of their relative strengths and weaknesses.

I learn tons of stuff from Wikipedia, all the time. Putting down information because it appears on that site is a cheap shot typical of preening snobs who lack a better argument than attacking the ~~source~~ source aggregator.

The person who stated "OS/2 lacked device drivers for many common devices such as printers, particularly non-IBM hardware" is Michal Necasek, who wrote that in a little something called "The History of OS/2."

I'll take his research (and my own recollection) over your distorted view, which seems to take pains to avoid acknowledging that NT is OS2 3.0.

Your assertion that lacking a driver does not equate to "wouldn't support" is hilarious. Talk about a distinction without a difference! Cheesy

Blah Blah blah right back at you, first bolded you conveniently once again fail to see the half decade Os2 was available before New Technolowgy which was primarily Server targeted.

Second bolded, nice red Herring, I never disagreed with his statement as a matter of fact I used it to point out your failure to understand the difference between "Lack" and "Would not support". Once again NT LAcked (NT didn't support by your definition) Driver support for a Huge percentage of the hardware used by the world. So you are trying to argue that NT was better than OS2 because it lacked driver support while NT lacked the same. You can't have it both ways.

Third Bolded, I'm not sure what difference you don't get the difference between not supporting (as in will never work) and driver not available at that time is One of massive proportions that is a straight out distortion of the facts which my quote from your wiki link debunks.

Try you logic fallacies on someone else you tire me son.

Ohh and AFA whether ETF will pass or not, I could care less. Your trying to argue I said it won't because of the links I supplied when I said no such thing. I said it does not help. Another Logic fallacy one your part. Maybe when you were playing with your 8088 you should have also taken a critical thinking class. Your not arguing with a dashtard troll here.

I'm aware OS2 spend years failing on the desktop market before its brave attempted pivot to the back office.

The most common usage of "supports" refers to out-of-the-box turnkey support, not theoretical If-and-only-if-you-write-your-own-middleware Turing compatibility.

NT supported most common peripherals out of the box; OS2 didn't. Sorry that you are still bitter about it two decades later. Tongue

When my OS2 users couldn't connect to the (beastly old unstoppable tank-like) Apple laser printers and/or goddamned HP JetDirect, I would simply upgrade them to NT. Spending time writing drivers for a soon-to-be-abandoned OS was not a viable option.

The point is that NT (aka OS2 3.0) was great for both workstations and servers and had a long successful product lifecycle, in stark contrast to the failure of OS2.

You said "I don't think this [anti-Trump FUD] is going to help BTC's EFT at all" followed by two links.

In response, I asked "What does the anti-Trump FUD about Shkreli's friend have to do with the BTC ETF, and/or the inevitability of XMR ETFs?"

I didn't say anything assuming you'd reached any kind of conclusion about the ETF approval. I just asked WTF your links about Shkreli's friend had to do with it; I didn't "argue" anything by asking that question. Perhaps those critical thinking classes you teach should cover the concept of non sequitur! Grin