Netscape (was Re: PayPal = payola?)

From: Pat Finnegan <pat_at_purdueriots.com>
Date: Sat Jan 26 05:55:25 2002

On Fri, 25 Jan 2002, Brian Chase wrote:

> You're not gonna impress anyone on this list with that candy-pants
> quiche-eating system. You can start to get our attention by get a
> computer that weighs more than you. Or barring that, we'll respect
> you more if your system doesn't have floating point instructions,
> or an integer divide, or even an integer multiply.

You mean like a 'cheap model' IBM System 360. The cheaper ones were
rumored to handle multiply operations in software (ick!). Interesting,
but not something I would really want to do payroll for a large company
with - with it taking about a week to figure out all the different tax
percentages (especially today..)

-- Pat
Received on Sat Jan 26 2002 - 05:55:25 GMT