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Re: The role of marketing (Re: Windows NT vs. UNIX (Was ...))

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From: Chan Benson
Date: Thu, 09 Apr 1992 18:46
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> > Come on you guys!  How could anything exist befor Microsoft invented it?
> > Don;t you know that MS invented the operating system concept, semaphores,
> > multi-tasking, and all the other technology related software?  Quite
> > possibly they also invented C adn C++.  Ask any Microsoft employee.
> > Sounds like a good old days when IBM invented everything.
> 
> 
> 	I'm sorry, I hate to be a bastard, but I just CAN'T let this 
> one by....
> 
> 	UNIX, a Multitasking Operating system written IN C by the 
> folks at BELL LABS, was written  over 20 YEARS AGO -- before microsoft
> was a twitch in anybodies daddy's pants.
> 
> 	I don't wish to get involved in the OS/2 vs. WIN stuff. I use 
> Win 3 now, will consider OS/2 when released. I'm just wondering what
> planet you took your CS classes on.

Probably the same one where you took "Understanding and Appreciation
of Sarcasm"

			-- Chan
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From: chan@hpfcmgw.FC.HP.COM (Chan Benson)
Date: Thu, 9 Apr 1992 18:46:08 GMT
Subject: Re: The role of marketing (Re: Windows NT vs. UNIX (Was ...))
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