Windows, std OS in Hell

From: Richard Erlacher <edick_at_idcomm.com>
Date: Fri Nov 9 20:33:52 2001

speaking of HELL .....

I recently read about an engineer who, on passing, was dispatched to the pearly
gates, only to be rejected for some inexplicable reason. On his subsequent
arrival at the "other place" he began to snoop around for things to tinker with,
and, after a while, the running cold water, air conditioning, filtration system,
etc, were all working, and the agonized screams of many of the inhabitants had
subsided, so a background music system was installed, along with a full range of
satellite TV.

Eventually God came around to call on Satan, who had, up to that point, kept
news of the modifications to his digs quiet. The first thing that came up in
their meeting, of course, was the relative comfort and elegance of the
surroundings, about which Beelzebub remarked, "... well, yes, that engineer you
sent me didn't like it the way it was, so he fixed a few things that had been
broken down for some time."

"Really? Well, I want him back!" was the Almighty's response, to which
Mephistopheles quickly remarked, "No, you can't have him! You had your chance,
and you sent him here. Now he's mine."

"I'll sue!" replied the Creator, to which the Devil smiled, and said, "Now, just
where are YOU going to get a lawyer?"

Dick

----- Original Message -----
From: "Eric J. Korpela" <korpela_at_ssl.berkeley.edu>
To: <classiccmp_at_classiccmp.org>
Sent: Friday, November 09, 2001 11:02 AM
Subject: Re: Windows, std OS in Hell


> > Nope, WFW3.11, Win95 and Win98 were designed as "small office / home
> > operating systems" and were never given support for LPR protocol as you
> > weren't expected to see that in a SOHO / Workgroup or Home setting. (In
> > yet another previous incarnation I was a support tech for POS at Microsoft
> > [Personal Operating Systems] )
>
> I could have sworn I had set up Win95 machines with support for unix printers.
> I don't recall that possibility in Win98, which seemed to ship with a reduced
> driver set than Win95.
>
> Eric
>
>
Received on Fri Nov 09 2001 - 20:33:52 GMT