From owner-freebsd-chat Wed Dec 25 09:49:14 1996 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.4/8.8.4) id JAA17054 for chat-outgoing; Wed, 25 Dec 1996 09:49:14 -0800 (PST) Received: from housing1.stucen.gatech.edu (ken@housing1.stucen.gatech.edu [130.207.52.71]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.4/8.8.4) with ESMTP id JAA17049 for ; Wed, 25 Dec 1996 09:49:12 -0800 (PST) Received: (from ken@localhost) by housing1.stucen.gatech.edu (8.8.4/8.8.4) id MAA18577; Wed, 25 Dec 1996 12:48:55 -0500 (EST) From: Kenneth Merry Message-Id: <199612251748.MAA18577@housing1.stucen.gatech.edu> Subject: Re: WTF!?!?!? In-Reply-To: from Bradley Dunn at "Dec 24, 96 01:03:25 am" To: bradley@dunn.org (Bradley Dunn) Date: Wed, 25 Dec 1996 12:48:54 -0500 (EST) Cc: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL25 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-chat@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Bradley Dunn wrote... > Sorry for the non-descriptive topic. I couldn't think of anything else to > decribe how I am feeling right now. > > Anyone seen page B1 of the Mon. 12-23-96 Wall Street Journal? In the > article about Apple buying Next, some cherub has this to say: > > "The Next product is a variant of Unix, a bulky operating system that is > slowly losing ground to Microsoft's surging Windows NT." > > Unix is bulky?!?!?! In comparision to NT?!?!?! This is a quote from the same article: "'If they can pull it off, Apple might actually break ahead of the field,' said Bill Jolitz, an operating system expert at Tandem Computers Inc. 'They have a possibility of being a surprise dark-horse finisher.'" Hmm... Ken -- Kenneth Merry ken@ulc199.residence.gatech.edu Disclaimer: I don't speak for GTRI, GT, or Elvis.