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Re: windows 200

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From: the wharf rat
Date: Fri, 28 Dec 2007 02:54
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In article <477446c4$0$28871$4c368faf@roadrunner.com>,
God Bless Texas  <no.one.no.where@no.when.no.how.org> wrote:
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>Oh, wait - Windows 200 !?  I thought you meant Windows 2,000!!


	Windows 200 is the version Marcus Aurelius ordered deployed
in the Roman Information Technology Department in 173.  The rest is
history.  When Rome became unable to keep its information systems
on line despite heavy tribute to the North-western tribes of the
Visigates, the user community's dissatisfaction with this release
of Windows led to the assasination of the Emperor Commodus in 194.  It
was too late for the Empire, though, and the expensive, unwieldy, and
unstable Windows 200 based information technology infrastructure led to
the rapid decline and fall of the Roman Empire beginning with the mutiny
of the Praetorians in 193.  (Petinax had ordered the famous guard to upgrade
to Mykrosofpht Ophis MMVII and it was the last straw for an already
frustrated workforce.)

	Naturally, given this unfortunate history and the relative length
of time that's passed since its initial release it's very hard to find
a useable distribution clay tablet and this particular machine is itself
so old that it won't boot from parchement.  That's why I posted here.
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From: wrat@panix.com (the wharf rat)
Newsgroups: austin.internet
Subject: Re: windows 200
Date: Fri, 28 Dec 2007 02:54:04 +0000 (UTC)
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