Name: Anonymous 2020-08-25 6:09
“... One example of a cumbersome and, in the opinion of the authors, useless add-on is Microsoft's integrated WINDOWS system. This system occupies almost 1 Mbyte of disk memory and is designed for preferential use in conjunction with a device of the "mouse" type ... ... Thus, the reader has already understood that among the add-ons over DOS there are quite useless systems that only look beautiful, but on in fact, they take away the user's time, disk space and computer RAM.
The deceptive beauty of such systems, however, has a strong impact on inexperienced users who have not had any experience with the machine. The inertia of thinking can be so strong that the authors had to observe how people who started working with such a setting later hardly force themselves to study DOS commands. I would like to warn readers against this mistake ... "
Source: Personal Computers in Engineering Practice. - M.: Radio and communication, Moscow, 1989.
The deceptive beauty of such systems, however, has a strong impact on inexperienced users who have not had any experience with the machine. The inertia of thinking can be so strong that the authors had to observe how people who started working with such a setting later hardly force themselves to study DOS commands. I would like to warn readers against this mistake ... "
Source: Personal Computers in Engineering Practice. - M.: Radio and communication, Moscow, 1989.