[geeks] Odd uptick in spam...

[Doug McLaren]

On Fri, Sep 07, 2007 at 11:04:20AM -0500, Lionel Peterson wrote:

| If we could only merge the robustness of VMS with the user-friendly
| interface of MS-Bob[A]...

Well, you know NT was based (loosely) on VMS ...

http://www.windowsitpro.com/articles/print.cfm?articleid=4494 talks
about that more.  Sorry, looks like you do have to log in to read it,
but BugMeNot got me in just fine.

| [A] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft_bob (Which, BTW, was
| probably one of the few pieces of MS software *not* pirated ;^)

Really?

http://thepiratebay.org/tor/3521579/Microsoft_Bob

I actually have a boxed copy of MS Bob up at the office.  Some day I
may open it and install it ... perhaps under Wine.

-- 
Doug McLaren, dougmc at frenzied.us               So many beers.  So little time.