16 Jun
2011
16 Jun
'11
10:57 a.m.
From: Christian Liendo
Sent: Thursday, June 16, 2011 8:17 AM
I have not seen a more useless off topic thread in a
while.
If we want to talk religion why not talk about
Commodore vs. Atari
Apple vs. IBM
CP/M vs. DOS
80x86 vx 68xxx
The good old days, where zealots ranted on technology.
I used to participate in the Emacs wars (the civil wars, GNU vs. XEmacs,
as well as denigrating the visual interface to ex), but the capper was a
comment in a keyboard flamefest on some newsgroup (alt.folklore.computers,
most likely, but it could have been an Emacs group) in which the winner
(as far as I'm concerned) noted:
"Keyboards are like assholes: Everybody's got one, but no one
wants to touch the other guy's."
As is said in the AI koans, "I was enlightened," and withdrew from all
flamewars. (But Perl vs. Python is so tempting... :-)
Rich Alderson
Vintage Computing Sr. Server Engineer
Vulcan, Inc.
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