You might be a VMS Bigot if.....

From: Shawn T. Rutledge <rutledge_at_cx47646-a.phnx1.az.home.com>
Date: Tue Oct 3 16:26:11 2000

On Tue, Oct 03, 2000 at 01:14:04PM -0700, healyzh_at_aracnet.com wrote:
> You know why the SHOW SYSTEM display had to have the "system uptime"
> field increased beyond 999 days.

And did the system had to be rebooted in order to apply this fix? :-)

> You know where NT stores its data if they really need it to be saved

What does this one mean?

> You do not expect the previous version of your file to be destroyed by
> the new one

Yeah when I first heard of journaling filesystem development for Linux,
I thought that was the whole point... but I guess not.
>
> You know RMS does not mean 'root mean square'

No, it's Stallman's initials, silly. (but I got an EE degree too,
so actually it could mean either one)

> The concept of a blue screen of death is foreign to you

Hmmm, that's one of the screen hacks in xscreensaver isn't it?

> You don't exit your editor when you leave for a two week vacation

I thought that was the sign of an emacs bigot?

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