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It's 19 Aug 97  05:40,
We'll return to sbirch@le.klever.net and All's
discussion of Conned by progress - was Re: Suggestions please - Office for Lin

 sb> No kidding.  Another point to annoys the heck out of me is that the
 sb> current generation of programmers are rediscovering ancient
 sb> technologies.  For example, NT 5.0 is being hyped because users will
 sb> be able to log into another machine and run programs on the other
 sb> machine, with screen output appearing on the first machine.  Give me a
 sb> break. UNIX has had this capability for over a decade.

Hmm, sounds a lot like X. :-)

 sb> The same thing happened when the PeeSee first started to multi-task.
 sb> The programmers of the day really believed they had invented something
 sb> new.  Sigh.

I think that _was_ something, given the hardware of the day, though
there were 8 bit micros capable of quite good multitasking many years
ago.

... Don't do Windows, but I'm great on floors, tables, etc...!
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