Micro$oft Biz'droid Lusers (was: OT email response format)

From: Fred Cisin <cisin_at_xenosoft.com>
Date: Tue Apr 23 19:37:18 2002

On Tue, 23 Apr 2002, Richard Erlacher wrote:
> > such as when Bill Gates said, "The 80286 is brain-dead." ?
> Did he really say that? I can't imagine what he'd have meant. Perhaps he was
> mad at the Intel folks.

Yes, he did.
Also, Gordon Letwin (author of OS/2 at Microsoft) compared mode switching
of the 286 to having to shut off your engine to change gears on the
freeway.
Received on Tue Apr 23 2002 - 19:37:18 BST