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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

One shall be the number of Mojo Jojos in the world, and the number of Mojo Jojos in the world shall be one. Two Mojo Jojos is too many, and three is right out!
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