On Monday 18 November 2002 23:02, MJ Ray wrote:
Imagine teaching your cousin who's new to computers (and a bit of a technophobe) how to download and compile his own software. Now imagine him teaching himself. Does it gain him much over being able to get it all precompiled?
That's all I was meaning, not that you can't build a general-purpose system from scratch.
Right, my misunterstanding of 'general purpose' then :-)
On with the downloading...