Ancient machines turning on (was Re: eBay strikes again...)

From: Mike <dogas_at_leading.net>
Date: Sat Oct 31 18:21:19 1998

Hi.

It must be the (near) full moon... the day... or.... *howlllll* *grrr* ;)

-----Original Message-----
From: Jim Strickland <jim_at_calico.litterbox.com>
>The biggest problem these older machines had was microsoft operating
systems.
>(okay, I'm a Unix/VMS bigot at heart, but DOS and win3.0/3.1 really WERE
that
>bad.)

I guess that before telling you how full of shit ( in a friendly way, of
course ) you are I should ask what your refering to here...

>>...but I've never met anyone who really LIKED these operating systems the
way the apple-heads liked prodos and gsos.


*statement now invalid*

Alas, (new) Apple-heads are turned-on by marketing ala translucent/green
repackaging. Dont get me wrong. the Woz is a god and Newton OS rocks, IIx
was cool...

The only thing that makes me seek non-ms oses is the programming ease
facilitated by microsoft in app development. Need some challenges
somewhere.... but I guess this is true for any programmer and their
preferred platform...


Mike: dogas_at_leading.net
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Received on Sat Oct 31 1998 - 18:21:19 GMT