Re: Bill Gates sucks

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From: Lloyd Wood
Date: Fri, 12 Apr 1996 20:05

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davej@apertus.com wrote:
>
>In article <4isqp4$ji@knet2.knet.flemingc.on.ca>, <lhadley@knet.flemingc.on.ca> writes:
>>   Micro$haft originally _wrote_ OS/2! Versions of MSC prior to 6 actually 
>> even produced OS/2 code! Micro$haft did in fact split with IBM over a 
>> dispute with OS/2, but it had _NOTHING_ to do with whether or not OS/2 
>> 2.x was going to be 32 bit (ie, 386). 
>
>I'd better check my resume but I'd swear that when I was doing OS/2 
>1.x development I was at IBM in Austin, TX in 1987-88.   I'm pretty 
>darn certain that it wasn't Microsoft I was contracting at.
>
>How do you figure "Micro$haft originally _wrote_ OS/2"????
>

In pretty much the same way that an acoustics engineering manager I once
worked for told me that unix was just a copy of MS-DOS.

L.

has trouble believing that OS/2 1.x was *written*. Congealed from obsolete
70s standards, more like.
-- 
<URL:http://www.ee.surrey.ac.uk/Personal/L.Wood/>netboy<L.Wood@surrey.ac.uk>

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Subject: Re: Bill Gates sucks
Date: 12 Apr 1996 20:05:09 GMT
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