Amazingly dumb remark about Linux

Octavian Rasnita orasnita at home.ro
Fri May 31 21:57:16 EDT 2002


Of course it was.
We all know that.
Bill Gates didn't like the complicated Unix command line interface and
created a more simple one.
... or adopted one because DOS wasn't an original Bill Gates idea.

Teddy,
orasnita at home.ro

----- Original Message -----
From: "Alex Snow" <alex_snow at gmx.net>
To: <speakup at braille.uwo.ca>
Sent: Friday, May 31, 2002 1:30 PM
Subject: Re: Amazingly dumb remark about Linux


> wasn't unix even before msdos?
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Octavian Rasnita" <orasnita at home.ro>
> To: <speakup at braille.uwo.ca>
> Sent: Thursday, May 30, 2002 9:31 PM
> Subject: Re: Amazingly dumb remark about Linux
>
>
> > Of course you're right.
> > Unix was before Windows.
> >
> > Teddy,
> > orasnita at home.ro
> >
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: "Cecil H. Whitley" <cwhitley at ec.rr.com>
> > To: <speakup at braille.uwo.ca>
> > Sent: Friday, May 31, 2002 1:25 AM
> > Subject: Re: Amazingly dumb remark about Linux
> >
> >
> > >
> > > Hi,
> > > Both SAS and SPSS (Statistical Package for the Social Sciences) were
> born
> > on
> > > mainframes.  The windows versions are simply ports.  The historical
> > > spreadsheet program of course is 1.2.3 and/or twin.  As for database
> > > programs it's d-base.  Remember word star?  If my memory serves me
> > correct,
> > > these were born under cp/m?
> > >
> > > Cecil
> > >
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