4 Jun
2005
4 Jun
'05
9:26 a.m.
Rumor has it that Vintage Computer Festival may have mentioned these words:
On Fri, 3 Jun 2005, Randy McLaughlin wrote:
And it doesn't *have* to be a bloated giant; only the prepackaged versions
are. If you want your own, whip out LFS and recompile it *any way you
like.* Yes, there are still versions that can fit on a pair of floppies --
no HD required!
Yes windows today is completely equivalent to the
different OS's I've used
on a variety of systems since I started in the mid 70's. The fact that
Micro$loth has created a bloated giant that self destructs with time is a
side issue. The open source equivalent Linux is also a bloated giant.
Except that it rarely (if ever) self destructs with time. BIG difference.
Yup.
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Speaking of whiny people whining about Closed-Source OSs and whining those
whiny computers/OSs won't open whiny PDFs...
Who has a version of MicroWare's OS-9 68K that'll run on an Atari ST?
;-)
Laterz,
"Merch"
--
Roger "Merch" Merchberger -- SysAdmin, Iceberg Computers
zmerch at 30below.com
What do you do when Life gives you lemons,
and you don't *like* lemonade?????????????