[geeks] can't wait for Vista

[Charles Shannon Hendrix]

Wed, 08 Nov 2006 @ 20:57 +0200, Geoffrey S. Mendelson said:

> On Wed, Nov 08, 2006 at 01:24:27PM -0500, Sridhar Ayengar wrote:
> > Brian Dunbar wrote:
> 
> > > I found mine at the U. Wisconsin surplus store, back of the area where
> > > they shelve the discarded Sun machines.
> > 
> > I'll take note of that.  I can use a spare.  8-)
> 
> Me first!!! Me first!!! Me First!!!  :-)
> 
> At this point I expect there are people on this list that would buy
> one and ship it to me air express gratis.......  :-)

Nah, you seem to have found yours... :)

> Just to keep it on topic, how many people here have said to themselves
> "why didn't I say (do) something about Micro Soft back when it would 
> have mattered"?

Some of us did, even when we were kids.

At first it was how they dared to ship such shoddy products, but when
the MS-DOS thing happened, it made a lot of the computer hobby world
take notice.

The other thing was their lack of code sharing was viewed very badly
back then, even by other companies and people that sold code.


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