OFF: And now a word from Mr. Tightly-Squweezed ButtCheeks III

[Paul Mather]

On Fri, 20 Mar 1998, Craig Shipley wrote:

> Y'know, if I though it would do any good, I'd GIVE him my copy of Eudora Pro
> (opened, but unused) so that he could have something that was written in the
> 1990's at least. But I think you have to have something a little more
> advanced than a VT-52 with a 300 baud modem...  :-)

Actually, for a while, my "desktop machine" consisted of an IBM 3151
dumb terminal connected to an RS/6000 via a 19200 baud serial line.  It
was so ancient that no termcap entry existed for it, and I had to
scrounge the Internet to find one.  (Oh what I would have given for the
luxury of a VT52!:)  Mind you, with "screen" installed, it was robust,
reliable, and technology you could count on, day in, day out (unlike the
Windoze boxes).  I was sad to see it go, in a way...

> Sorry to say, but UNIX is getting its' clock cleaned by NT; even my company
> realizes that the bucks are to be made in the NT environment. Learn a mailer
> that the runs on what is going to be the dominant O/S for the foreseeable
> future. I don't like this, but it is reality... :-/ ).

NT (and the other Windoze "operating systems") provide us, at last, with
a concrete existence proof of P.T. Barnum's old adage: there's a sucker
born every minute.  (It's also a handy existance proof for "you can fool
most of the people all of the time.") :-)

Not that I'm going to get drawn into an OS flame war on this list, mind
you...

> Come join us, you will be assimilated, whatever...

Let me know as soon as Windoze NT runs on the DECstation 3100
workstation I bought for $100 at the Virginia Tech surplus auction, and
I'll assimilate with the best of 'em!  (In the meantime, I'll continue
to run OpenBSD...)

> Bass Ale time, see ya all on Monday!!!

Happy drinking!

Cheers,

Paul.

obCD: Free, _Highway_

e-mail: paul at gromit.dlib.vt.edu

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