19 Apr
2002
19 Apr
'02
2:19 p.m.
On April 19, Doc Shipley wrote:
I already knew that every other OS that runs on PC does it right. I'd
like to know how M$ got it so horribly wrong....
They're not exactly known for knowing what they're doing. To steal a
phrase from my grandmother, those guys "couldn't pour piss out of a
boot with the instructions written on the side".
-Dave
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Dave McGuire "Mmmm. Big."
St. Petersburg, FL -Den
WHAT is M$ doing that operating a floppy disk drive
takes ALL of a
1.4GHz CPU and 512M of memory? I wanna know!
That was one of the things IBM bragged about in the OS/2 2.0 ads. That
you could continue with your word processor while you formatted a floppy.
Windows could not even come close at the time. 
19 Apr
19 Apr
3:06 p.m.
On Fri, 19 Apr 2002, Dave McGuire wrote:
<snip>
They're not exactly known for knowing what
they're doing. To steal a
phrase from my grandmother, those guys "couldn't pour piss out of a
boot with the instructions written on the side".
"...on the heel" is the way my grandfather told it :)
- don
-Dave
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Dave McGuire "Mmmm. Big."
St. Petersburg, FL -Den
7:22 p.m.
Don Maslin wrote:
On Fri, 19 Apr 2002, Dave McGuire wrote:
<snip>
They could'nt
find the heel! But they sure can pour the piss into the
boot!
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Ben Franchuk - Dawn * 12/24 bit cpu *
www.jetnet.ab.ca/users/bfranchuk/index.html
They're not exactly known for knowing what
they're doing. To steal a
phrase from my grandmother, those guys "couldn't pour piss out of a
boot with the instructions written on the side".
"...on the heel" is the way my grandfather told it :)
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