Edward Elliott wrote: > Scott David Daniels wrote: > >> Edward Elliott wrote: >>> Scott David Daniels wrote: >>>> ... >> > ... You windows kids and your crazy data formats. >> There were a few oth OS's than Linux and Windows. Maybe you >> should call me "you crazy Tenex kid." > > Windows popularized the zip format, but if you insist: > You crazy Tenex kids, with your char-at-a-time raw password checking and > new-fangled virtual memory. Back in my day, all we had was Multics and we > liked it that way.
Actually I think it was a combination of CP/M and DOS that popularized the ZIP format; essentially the floppy-disk set, for whom the zip format was a godsend. -- -Scott David Daniels [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
