This is why it annoys us when we hire young people who don’t know how their computers work, and don’t know the difference between a local and network hard drive. The EMS/XMS dichotomy in particular was very good at teaching us how our computers worked.

We weren’t morons. Morons are the people who don’t learn.

People should want to know stuff like this. I’ve had Apple employees insist that we shouldn’t, because we’re willing to use other household appliances without knowing how THEY work – why are computers any different? I would object to that in two ways. First, computers are vastly more customisable tools than microwave ovens, and second, we SHOULD want to know how our microwave oven works. Who’s willing to have a little machine that generates really quite a lot of radiation sitting in their kitchen without bothering to learn how it works or why (or if) it doesn’t leak that radiation? Who are these people?

They’re morons.

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