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Article #240Re: floppy eject buttons [was: What's a Real Computer?]
From: Jim Williams
Date: Tue, 01 Aug 1995 19:56
Date: Tue, 01 Aug 1995 19:56
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english@primenet.com (Lawson English) wrote: [Switzerland] > >A little of both, I think. He tried and failed. He tried harder and still >failed. > >He looked at the situation and decided that it wasn't worth it. > > >(Make no mistake: had Caesar decided to take Switzerland, it *would* have >fallen, but Rome wasn't interested in one single valley at the expense of >a huge portion of its entire standing army world-wide -Switzerland would >have fallen and then Caesar would have, several years early. Hitler made >the same decision, as I recall...). > > That's more of less what I thought. Actually, I thought Caesar had claimed them, but never bothered to collect any taxes. :) I'm not sure where I got that idea. -- Jim Williams. Find a Linux User Group near you: http://www.tiac.net/users/williams/lugnuts/ Buy Linux brand UNIX!
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!sundog.tiac.net!usenet From: Jim Williams <williams@tiac.net> Newsgroups: comp.sys.powerpc,comp.os.linux.advocacy,comp.sys.mac.advocacy,comp.os.os2.advocacy,comp.sys.amiga.advocacy,comp.sys.intel Subject: Re: floppy eject buttons [was: What's a Real Computer?] Date: 1 Aug 1995 19:56:24 GMT Organization: Elision Message-ID: <3vm0t8$g7u@sundog.tiac.net> References: <3uodl4$359@decaxp.harvard.edu> <3up9j3$ltk@spool.cs.wisc.edu> <3v3plj$ee8@decaxp.harvard.edu> <DCByn8.2C4K@austin.ibm.com> <ericb.388.30179DEA@psu.edu> <27JUL199509550529@vms1.tamu.edu> <ericb.397.3017BA4F@psu.edu> <danpop.806950491@rscernix> <3vcgqa$fko@panix.com> <DCLIJp.3KJC@austin.ibm.com> <3vk1gj$1tj@sundog.tiac.net> <3vm06u$8o0@nnrp3.primenet.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: elision.tiac.net Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Mozilla 1.1N (Windows; I; 16bit)