Re: The Internet-enabled Contiki Desktop OS

[Christian Link <C.LinkSPAMBLOCK@GMX.NET>]

With all due respect for your other, non-destructive comments (which
have become incredibly rare recently, though), this certainly wasn't
called for, was it?

On Mon, 10 Mar 2003 14:35:38 -0800, Matthew Montchalin
<mmontcha@OregonVOS.net> wrote:

[...]
>|* Windowing system with themeable GUI toolkit.
>
>Well, it must be nice to offer Windows enthusiasts an alternative to
>their damnably bad OS.

Do I sense an ever-growing frustration that - as if unreflected
comments about PC systems per se weren't enough - now doesn't even
stop from hard (and, as far as I can judge it, damn well-done) efforts
to innovate a part of the 8 bit world? Jesus!

Personally, I admit I can't yet join in into the euphoric comments
here, as I'm lacking the possibility to connect my "real thing" to the
internet (seeing as I don't have analog lines, my old RS232 interface
plus a modem won't do me any good, I think), but what I can say is
that it looks and feels very, very impressing, and it's one of the
coolest UI I've ever seen on the 64 (Oh well, I've never had Wheels or
CLIPS, admitted!). _If_ the net connection works (And why should Adam
kid us?), that's really a major achievement, nothing less!

But maybe it's not good enough for your very own high standards -
which is understandable seeing how innovative and brillant _your_
CBM-related work is... Too bad hardly anybody ever saw it, though...

Did you actually _see_ Contiki, yet? I mean, what with all your
self-made PC trouble and stuff? How were you supposed to download,
extract, and, if necessary, convert the D64 Adam provided, anyway?

Oh, you didn't. Great. Speaks volumes about your comments...

With regards to Adam, though, two thumbs up. Now if VICE only provided
a means to make use of the PC's internet connection, I'd love to try
the browser and telnet features myself. Maybe someday...

Anyway, keep it up, Adam, and don't let jealous, stick-in-the-mud dogs
in the manger irritate you. Oh, and thanks for not doing anything
tricky that prevented Contiki from running under PC64/DOS, even ;-) !

Greetings,
		Chris.