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Post #32,877 by jb4 3/20/02 1:07:45 PM Reply	More revisionist history from the masters From the article: "And through Windows NT, you can see it throughout the design. In a weak sense, it is a form of Unix." No, Billy, in a weak sense, its a form of VAX VMS. In its wildest orgasmic dreams, it wishes it were a form of VMS. Please get it right, you dumshit! jb4 (Resistance is not futile...)
Post #32,885 by dlevitt 3/20/02 1:24:18 PM Reply	Another BG line This is an approximate quote [circa 1992] addressing a [UNIX related] trade show ~"NT is UNIX, in six months it will be the world's most popular UNIX!"~ Did I dredge this up from faulty memory or an alternate universe?
Post #32,887 by boxley 3/20/02 1:44:50 PM Reply	Remeber NT3.5.1 was a pretty decent product they fired all the nix developers brought the code monkeys in and handed us 4.0 I was a big fan and a beta tester for NT 3.5. When they sacrificed stability for glamor is when I went sour on the company. thanx, bill TAM ARIS QUAM ARMIPOTENS
Post #32,976 by jb4 3/21/02 8:59:06 AM Reply	Box, you (of all people) shoulda known... ...something was amiss when the bragged about putting GDI in Ring 0 "to improve performance"... jb4 (Resistance is not futile...)
Post #33,036 by Ashton 3/21/02 4:29:56 PM Reply	Y'know.. even us non- codemonkeys know what That meant / means! :-\ufffd But the bragging part - indeed, that would encapsulate the M/Sloth Way to a Gee Pee Eff. A.
Post #33,070 by wharris2 3/21/02 6:48:43 PM Reply	Don't you mean its earlier cousin, the UAE? "I didn't know you could drive to Europe." -- An eavesdropper, piping in when he overheard a conversation about someone who had driven to Montreal.
Post #33,488 by boxley 3/26/02 12:48:23 PM Reply	thats when I bailed TAM ARIS QUAM ARMIPOTENS
Post #32,932 by Ashton 3/20/02 8:24:16 PM Reply	A truly Stupefying line from the little twit hisself: [link\|http://radsoft.net/\|Courtesy Ric at Radsoft] If you don't know about Rixtools - worth a read. Tiny-sized utils that work, cut through the BS. Even a teeny packet sniffer. You have to pay and - you get more than you pay for, IM marginally incompetent experience. Warning: put down any fizzy or steaming drinks, before reading further. 'My favourite is "writing hard core C to create slick tight code".' -- Bill Gates

MS used to develop in... vi?? - (admin) - (34) - March 20, 2002, 10:59:05 AM EST

Explains it all. - (pwhysall) - March 20, 2002, 11:19:35 AM EST

Xenix was a great product! - (boxley) - March 20, 2002, 12:09:16 PM EST

More revisionist history from the masters - (jb4) - (7) - March 20, 2002, 01:07:45 PM EST

Another BG line - (dlevitt) - (6) - March 20, 2002, 01:24:18 PM EST

Remeber NT3.5.1 was a pretty decent product - (boxley) - (4) - March 20, 2002, 01:44:50 PM EST

Box, you (of all people) shoulda known... - (jb4) - (3) - March 21, 2002, 08:59:06 AM EST

Y'know.. even us non- codemonkeys - (Ashton) - (1) - March 21, 2002, 04:29:56 PM EST

Don't you mean its earlier cousin, the UAE? -NT - (wharris2) - March 21, 2002, 06:48:43 PM EST

thats when I bailed -NT - (boxley) - March 26, 2002, 12:48:23 PM EST

A truly Stupefying line from the little twit hisself: - (Ashton) - March 20, 2002, 08:24:16 PM EST

IBM did have the AIX product for PCs. - (a6l6e6x) - (22) - March 20, 2002, 04:40:16 PM EST

Jives perfectly with IBM, AIX that is. - (wharris2) - (21) - March 20, 2002, 06:01:22 PM EST

Re: AIX Odd ???? - (dmarker2) - (17) - March 20, 2002, 09:09:38 PM EST

Odd, yes - (wharris2) - (3) - March 20, 2002, 06:50:39 PM EST

Re: If thread is on idiosyncracies - (dmarker2) - (1) - March 20, 2002, 10:39:35 PM EST

Re: If thread is on idiosyncracies - (wharris2) - March 20, 2002, 11:52:27 PM EST

Re: Odd, yes... But Right!!! - (folkert) - March 24, 2002, 08:53:23 PM EST

Doug, I was an engineer on IBM S/360/67. - (a6l6e6x) - (12) - March 20, 2002, 10:31:15 PM EST

Re: Doug, I was an engineer on IBM S/360/67. - (dmarker2) - (11) - March 20, 2002, 10:58:58 PM EST

Exciting times indeed! Read this BOX. - (a6l6e6x) - (10) - March 21, 2002, 12:54:31 AM EST

Re: Exciting times indeed! - (dmarker2) - (8) - March 22, 2002, 04:37:19 AM EST

It is amazing you still have the tools. - (a6l6e6x) - (7) - March 21, 2002, 11:00:42 PM EST

Re: You are dead right about replacing cores - (dmarker2) - (6) - March 22, 2002, 04:34:08 AM EST

Yep, I hear about that Suggestion Award. -NT - (a6l6e6x) - March 22, 2002, 12:05:52 PM EST

Question about core memory. - (static) - (4) - March 23, 2002, 04:27:03 AM EST

Re: Question about core memory. - My memory of core :-) - (dmarker2) - (3) - March 23, 2002, 06:44:19 AM EST

Now imagine threading R/W wires x-turns, through EACH one.. -NT - (Ashton) - March 23, 2002, 02:02:01 PM EST

Re: core memory. - (a6l6e6x) - March 23, 2002, 08:24:14 PM EST

Ah... - (static) - March 24, 2002, 09:23:26 PM EST

hey you could do big/little I(E)ndian that way! -NT - (boxley) - March 26, 2002, 12:52:59 PM EST

AIX - doesn't that stand for . . . - (Andrew Grygus) - (2) - March 20, 2002, 11:33:58 PM EST

Re: Anti-AIX - lot of emotion at the time but... - (dmarker2) - (1) - March 21, 2002, 05:36:10 AM EST

I retired one of those Zylog Zues boxes . . - (Andrew Grygus) - March 21, 2002, 11:03:36 AM EST

Told this to my UNIX admin students - (tjsinclair) - March 21, 2002, 01:37:11 AM EST

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