On Sat, 11 May 2002 03:52:15 +0100, Derek Byram <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Saturday 11 May 2002 03:28, you wrote:
> > On Friday 10 May 2002 17:05, Derek Byram opened a general hailing frequency
> >
> > and transmitted to all open stations:
> > > > i won't argue the "dumb" part, but i will point out that in his book
> > > > billyg says that the next big advancement in computers will come when
> > > > we find a fast easy way to factor prime numbers.....
> > > >
> > > > ...left as an exercise for the reader.
> > >
> > > seems to me this has become a flamethrower war :) ?
> >
> > well mostly, but the flames in the post are from linux towards bill gates,
> > so.......
> >
> > how many here on this list want to defend bill? don't all speak up at
> > once! ;)
>
> i can't defend billy boy, his software went downhill after 3.11 *G*
I think the last decent thing they made was Xenix, which was made in
collaboration with Santa Cruz Operation (SCO). MS later cut Xenix away to focus
on Windows, and it was eventually rebranded to SCO UNIX.
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