-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On 11/29/06 11:28, Nelson Castillo wrote: >> Anyhow, he said that most amusing thing about Microsoft was that they >> are just getting around now to solving the problems that UNIX solved 20 >> years ago or more and still managing to make new mistakes in the >> process. > > This is rather fun. I remember that in 1995 I didn't now UNIX > (I used to live in a Small city), and I bought what I read in a > Herbert Schilds's book (he wrote that win95 would be the NEXT THING). > > When I learnt Linux and I learned how a simple process running > with an unprivileged user cannot crash the machine peeking > and modifying random memory locations, I really thought: > > How is this we didn't get this in Windows 95, 98!
That was the purpose of of the Windows NT code base. Of course, all the apps were written assuming root control of the system, so NT has never panned out. Only MSFT could fsck things up that badly. > Since then, I had never programmed for Windows. > > And some people think that we used GNU/Linux only because > the Emacs church... That's right. By day, I use OpenVMS, so I expect all OSs to be secure and powerful. - -- Ron Johnson, Jr. Jefferson LA USA Is "common sense" really valid? For example, it is "common sense" to white-power racists that whites are superior to blacks, and that those with brown skins are mud people. However, that "common sense" is obviously wrong. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.5 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFFbkDtS9HxQb37XmcRAiC7AKDAXfggXNDX7I3TAw20LUPThdarGQCdHE+A u6g4E0RY5/ahaz+u2AbIpUk= =+D96 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]