2 Oct
2002
2 Oct
'02
8:52 p.m.
"Fred Cisin (XenoSoft)" wrote:
On Wed, 2 Oct 2002, Sellam Ismail wrote:
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
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(a)xenosoft.com