Date: Sun, 20 Apr 1997 12:58:17 -0700 From: mike allison <mallison@konnections.com> To: Sean Eric Fagan <sef@Kithrup.COM> Cc: chat@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Price of FreeBSD (was On Holy Wars...) Message-ID: <335A7559.24A053D1@konnections.com> References: Your message of "Sat, 19 Apr 1997 12:02:06 BST." <l03020907af7e55ac3bf5@[194.32.164.2]> <199704191809.LAA22926@kithrup.com>
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Sean Eric Fagan wrote: > > > I'd like to point out that OS/2's early problems stemmed from it being a > uSoft product originally. But when Windows 3.0 took off (and 3.0.1 because > actually usable by people), uSoft decided they did not want to deal with > OS/2 anymore, and left it on IBM's doorstep. Which is kinda a pity -- the > 286-centric OS/2 sucked dead blue donkeys%, but given that it came from > uSoft, I'm not surprised. IBM did a good job of improving it, I always > thought, a couple of years later. > > Sean. > ----- > % A hapence if you can identify th esource of that phrase. All the 286 products we're left for dead. Xenix/AT was one of the best Unix' ever made. But..... As for %, I dunno, we had Donkey Dicks in the Corps, the adapter that we put in jerry cans to fill the tanks on the jeeps.... I liked Hermit Hackers `Non-hacker' reference, as that means a person who can't do something in the Corps. Thus a Non-Hacker is someone who can't use Unix...... Of course, the % sign is also a graphic icon of the male sex organ of the donkey...
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