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Article #24Re: I DO HEREBY DECLARE...
From: Ravi K. Swamy
Date: Thu, 13 Jun 1996 00:00
Date: Thu, 13 Jun 1996 00:00
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In article <4ppq6f$ao2@taco.cc.ncsu.edu>, Christopher D Dukes <cddukes@unity.ncsu.edu> wrote: >In article <4poq38$3hk@taco.cc.ncsu.edu>, >Brian Jones <cbjones1@eos.ncsu.edu> wrote: >>Excuse me, but does anyone besides me cringe at the thought >>of WinNT becoming the OS of choice for all your server needs? >Well, do you remember VAX clusters? Do you remember how you could >fly the NCC1701D through the holes in VAX clusters? No but I remember my roommate mentioning how you could fly the Enterprise through the... well this girl on some 'video' that he had... The way he put it she had a 'large temporal rip'. >Well they are now touting WNT clusters... and what is WNT, but Even funnier is DEC touting clustering as new when they are the ones that created the "set default crap:[morecrap]" braindead OS. >VMS with OS/2 device drivers and the addition of Windows APIs. >One could fly that really huge Borg ship through the holes in that. "Try moving off NT easily. You can move from Solaris to HP/UX to AIX or DEC easily-- relative to moving off of NT, which is like a Roach Motel. Once you check in, you never check out." -Scott McNealy Now why I am quoting McNealy is beyond me... A far better McNealy quote is currently on the sun www site. "Kick butt and have FUN" with him in his hockey uniform. Well I laughed... Ravi -- Ravi K. Swamy http://www4.ncsu.edu/~rkswamy/www/ rkswamy@eos.ncsu.edu root@genom.com
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X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: fb8b9,276e043920eb1300 X-Google-Attributes: gidfb8b9,public X-Google-Thread: 110235,276e043920eb1300 X-Google-Attributes: gid110235,public X-Google-Thread: 108f06,673f91e4f14a7843 X-Google-Attributes: gid108f06,public X-Google-Thread: 1043f1,9b9651c2a73c9ade X-Google-Attributes: gid1043f1,public From: rkswamy@unity.ncsu.edu (Ravi K. Swamy) Subject: Re: I DO HEREBY DECLARE... Date: 1996/06/13 Message-ID: <4pq0vq$cch@taco.cc.ncsu.edu> X-Deja-AN: 160089155 references: <4p4nu4$r3@taco.cc.ncsu.edu> <4pl434$jn6@taco.cc.ncsu.edu> <4poq38$3hk@taco.cc.ncsu.edu> <4ppq6f$ao2@taco.cc.ncsu.edu> organization: Gunsmith Cats newsgroups: triangle.bizarre,triangle.personals,ba.singles,ba.personals