10 years

From: Ross Archer <archer_at_topnow.com>
Date: Wed Oct 2 20:52:00 2002

"Fred Cisin (XenoSoft)" wrote:
>
> On Wed, 2 Oct 2002, Sellam Ismail wrote:
> > I guess NT is just about 10 years old now, isn't it? Sick.
>
> MICROS~1 was demo'ing NT in 1991, right before announcing Windoze 3.10.
> The "dryrot logo" (which MICROS~1 calls the "flying windows logo" (in
> spite of pieces falling off of the left side) was introduced at the
> Microsoft Professional Developers Conference in August 1991 (along with
> Windoze 3.10). MICROS~1 didn't care that NONE of the developers, from
> whom they expected enthusiastic response, liked it.
>
> Might I formally propose that when we get to 2005, we revise the charter
> of this list to be 11 years?
> and in 2006, 12 years
> in 2007, 13 years . . .
>
> acceptable age = current year - 1994
>
> 'cause when Windoze 95 becomes on topic, it just might not be fun anymore.
>
> --
> Grumpy Ol' Fred cisin_at_xenosoft.com

To be honest, I don't think such a measure
is necessary. Among geeks, MickySoft OS'es
are decidedly un-sexy, and commodity PCs are
(except for the truly oddball ones) boring to
a life-threatening degree. :)

A thread about THE generic OS on THE generic
platform would probably be good for two or three
responses, and then would die the ignominious death
that it so deserved. :)


"The economy isn't at 'The Grapes of Wrath' stage
yet. It's only up to 'The Raisins of Regret", or
perhaps the "Prunes of Peevishness". :)
-- Ross
Received on Wed Oct 02 2002 - 20:52:00 BST