26 Sep
2011
26 Sep
'11
7:34 p.m.
On Mon, 26 Sep 2011, Glen Slick wrote:
On Sep 26, 2011 5:38 PM, "Fred Cisin"
<cisin at xenosoft.com> wrote:
Sparc? Vax was still going sort of strong.
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David Griffith
dgriffi at cs.csubak.edu
A: Because it fouls the order in which people normally read text.
Q: Why is top-posting such a bad thing?
A: Top-posting.
Q: What is the most annoying thing in e-mail?
When NT 4.x came out, MS marketing droids made a big deal out if being 99
44/100% portable C code, and how they were going to port it to EVERY
computer. (even the impossible ones)
Later, they changed their strategy more towards trying to achieve the same
result by trying to eliminate the existence of anything that Windoze
wouldn't run on.
There were Alpha, MIPS, and PowerPC versions. What other CPU architectures
were out there at the time in any volume that would justify the effort to
support?