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Article #313Re: windows 200
From: the wharf rat
Date: Fri, 28 Dec 2007 02:54
Date: Fri, 28 Dec 2007 02:54
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In article <477446c4$0$28871$4c368faf@roadrunner.com>, God Bless Texas <no.one.no.where@no.when.no.how.org> wrote: > >Oh, wait - Windows 200 !? I thought you meant Windows 2,000!! Windows 200 is the version Marcus Aurelius ordered deployed in the Roman Information Technology Department in 173. The rest is history. When Rome became unable to keep its information systems on line despite heavy tribute to the North-western tribes of the Visigates, the user community's dissatisfaction with this release of Windows led to the assasination of the Emperor Commodus in 194. It was too late for the Empire, though, and the expensive, unwieldy, and unstable Windows 200 based information technology infrastructure led to the rapid decline and fall of the Roman Empire beginning with the mutiny of the Praetorians in 193. (Petinax had ordered the famous guard to upgrade to Mykrosofpht Ophis MMVII and it was the last straw for an already frustrated workforce.) Naturally, given this unfortunate history and the relative length of time that's passed since its initial release it's very hard to find a useable distribution clay tablet and this particular machine is itself so old that it won't boot from parchement. That's why I posted here.
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X-Google-Thread: 113866,7092e73dbdfc71b X-Google-Attributes: gid113866,public,usenet X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!g2news1.google.com!news2.google.com!newsfeed2.dallas1.level3.net!news.level3.com!panix!not-for-mail From: wrat@panix.com (the wharf rat) Newsgroups: austin.internet Subject: Re: windows 200 Date: Fri, 28 Dec 2007 02:54:04 +0000 (UTC) Organization: Public Access Networks Corp. Lines: 25 Message-ID: <fl1ogc$sff$1@reader2.panix.com> References: <fkp14b$nle$1@panix3.panix.com> <477446c4$0$28871$4c368faf@roadrunner.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: panix2.panix.com X-Trace: reader2.panix.com 1198810444 29167 166.84.1.2 (28 Dec 2007 02:54:04 GMT) X-Complaints-To: abuse@panix.com NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 28 Dec 2007 02:54:04 +0000 (UTC) X-Newsreader: trn 4.0-test76 (Apr 2, 2001)