futute classic

From: Sellam Ismail <foo_at_siconic.com>
Date: Fri Jul 28 12:36:47 2000

On Fri, 28 Jul 2000, Hans Franke wrote:

> > Despite the fact that I don't like giving my name, address, e-mail address
> > and telephone number to MS, I signed up. If I win I'll let you have first
> > dibs on buying the package before I put it up for auction in 10 years :)
>
> You mean at the time when the people are talking about Windows 9x
> as the good old times ? When they complane how simple and easy
> to understand ME was, and on what tiny and small systems this
> low resource OS did run ?

Yeah, we'll be reminiscing about the times our system used to crash on a
regular basis, and how we miss the misery. By that time I imagine MS will
have made their "OS" crash much less than it does today, making the whole
computing experience nearly clean and sterile, taking all the fun away.

Sellam International Man of Intrigue and Danger
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