RE: OT: What OS

["Mark Harrison" <Mark.Harrison@xxxxxxx>]

You are absolutely right.

It would be a very good idea to ensure that the computers children use at
schools are confusingly different from the ones their parents are 90%
likely to have at home :-)

Presumably schools should also teach classes in Esparanto, because the
language is better for conveying complex information :-)

M.

-----Original Message-----
From: Nic Blinston [mailto:ukha@xxxxxxx]
Sent: 4 May 2002 00:45
To: ukha_d@xxxxxxx
Subject: Re: [ukha_d] OT: What OS


>After 3 years the local childrens nursery has collected enough
Tesco
>vouchers to get a new PC! It will be a Celeron 1GHz; 128MB memory;
>20GB drive. We can get it with either W98, W2000 or XP
Professional.
>Any views on which OS to go for?

Mac OS X / 9.2.2

Oh sorry; forgot that whilst Apple Mac hardware can run Windoze, 
Wintel boxes can't run the Mac OSes...

As someone else said, much still running on BBCs; other schools 
finally kicking out the unreliable Wintel kit and installing stable 
RISC OS systems...

And please don't trot out the line about Windows whatever version 
being 'the standard' - by the time nursery-age children reach junior 
school it will be long obsolete.

Appropriate Technology - define the job, then use the right tool...


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