Subj : Re: your opinion of current world situation
To   : Nightfox
From : poindexter FORTRAN
Date : Wed May 15 2024 07:09:00

-=> Nightfox wrote to fusion <=-


 Ni> It seems the better technologies don't always win out.  For PC
 Ni> operating systems, I thought OS/2 was better than Windows, but Windows
 Ni> ended up becoming the de facto standard.

I had a caller who would rant endlessly about OS/2. He felt that since
he'd never touched it or seen it that he was in an ideal position to
take such a stance.


- Area: nirvana.tech.flame ---------------------------------------------------
  Msg#: 95              Sent                         Date: 20 Jul 94  12:31:00
  From: SAM UZI                                      Read: Yes    Replied: No
    To: JOHN SMITH                                   Mark:
  Subj: OS from heaven
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 -=> John Smith said to the geek Sam Uzi <=-

 SU> it is the ONLY true 32-bit multi-threaded pre-emptive multi-tasking OS
 SU> around.

 JS> ...except for every single OS around that was written for non-Intel
 JS> CPUs.
 JS> All the neat shit that people claim for the latest hottest Intel OSs
 JS> -- the stuff in your quote there -- is stuff that has always been
 JS> pretty much standard in the Motorola and Risc worlds.


sure, whatever... but OS/2 is THE BEST Operating System in the world, and
can run circles around anything else, and it looks nicer, and will cook
your breakfast for you, and make your coffee, and has 3D-bordered
icons, and is nifty, and looks cool, and is True-Blue, and can run DOS
better than DOS, and will take out the garbage, and will get you chicks,
and has got a 438 Hemi duo-blaster twin quad super injection turbo
ramjet ultra thingy that makes it go real fast, and it can juggle, and
it knows when you've been bad or good, so be good for goodness sake, and
it will end world hunger, and it has fine Corinthian leather, and it
never makes you say you're sorry, and it always uses a condom, and it
likes the kinds of pizza and ice cream that you like, and it plays
bitchin' guitar, and it manages files like there's no tomorrow, and its
object-oriented multi-media neural-net shipping next quarter, and it is
bullit-proof like 20 layers of #4 Kevlar body armor, and it is so
multi-threaded that it weaves a heavy wool blanket while its idleing,
and my momma told me when I was just a lad that it was the best, and it
has a heavy manual, and it uses less characters in its name than other
OS's, and its recomended by four out of five dentists, and it can kick
Superman's ass, and it's meaner than the junkyard dog, and its the
choice of the next generation, and it will let you so many things at the
same time that your head will spin, and it can dance, and ... oh never
mind... it sucks...



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