🚀 go-pugleaf

On Tue, 05 Nov 1996 10:12:44 -0500, in demon.ip.support.other, durgin (durgin
<durgin@durgin.net>) wrote:


>> Christopher Sharp wrote:
>
>
>...snip ...
>
>>if my memory servers me correctly the
>> shrink-wrapped NT 3.51 was licensed for up to 8.  
>
>Well, the old Sequent Winservers used to run up to 12 cpus....

So do the *relatively* new ones :-)

>> I hear that even Microsoft mice carry a license agreement forbidding you to
>attach them to a unit with more than two processors.  
>
>Easy to explain.  They get confused, develop split personalities, and
>develop inferiority complexes (after all, they only have one ball!). 
>I'm sure you can understand Microsoft's reluctance to accept the
>liability problems of miscreant mice.

Microsoft wouldn't accept the liability problems of putting a fly in the same
room as a little kid with a newspaper.

>>IMHO Windows without a mouse isn't very useful and AFAIK
>> nobody has passed the logon screen without a mouse or keyboard (or did I
>miss
>> some huge development of telepathic communications equipment?).
>
>...Hi, Mr. Nobody here.  And has.  I have successfully passed not only
>the log-on screen, but recovered most of a crashed NTW 3.51
>installation, sans mouse.  Didn't need no stinkin' fureign telepathy,
>neither.  Just got myself a 100 gw radar transmitters and blasted them
>electrons right where I wanted 'em.  (Course the neighbors were a bit
>annoyed with that big Phased Array blocking ouyt the sunlight, and there
>was that ugly dog that got too close and was toasted..... :-)

:-)

The comment was originally made before I removed a section on the Microsoft
Intelisense keyboard carrying a similar license.  It originally read "IMHO
Windows without a mouse and keyboard isn't very useful "... hence the way that
the rest went on to make a greater impact (not to mention to be more sensible
:-)

Shame about the toasted dog, I was hoping you were going to mention that some
weird twist of ironic fate had made it Bill Gates' :-)


Christopher


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