Windows 8.1…

Believe it or not, this is a book review (see later), but first a bit of history. I’m not into fancy GUIs and sliding icons. The work in my old day job required mostly UNIX workstations. There was a GUI, but it was primitive compared to today’s Apple and smart phone GUIs. No sliding icons or touch screens, but there was enough firepower to handle terabytes of data. That’s science, or, at least, the dirty kind where you’re given lots of data and you’re supposed to make sense of it.

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