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From: "Jim Roland" <jroland@roland.net>
To: <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	"Graham Murray" <graham@barnowl.demon.co.uk>
Subject: Re: Uncle Sam Wants YOU!
Date: Mon, 2 Jul 2001 04:19:53 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <016e01c102d8$273cebe0$bb1cfa18@JimWS> (raw)
In-Reply-To: LINKIFYCGFHAdEaHcbDFFHACfDEddJIbHcJGFCfCaGeaEbDLINKIFYaceBAGIbHadbFfABdICCBEcIAfECHbdIGIIdAHbaLINKIFYFEBfcAbGcCFJDBGIfDGCHedAccJJBffdJFHfHdCfLINKIFYFaGFBCHBaJAafafBHaaFBEbHHHAcBIFcBIIdaabGLINKIFYBHbCfbfaJeFHEDHcbeEaIAbGGdcaBJfDceBJacac <m2d77jx50a.fsf@barnowl.demon.co.uk>

Of course, being an OS/2 person myself before Slackware 1.2, I am still (to
this day) disappointed that OS/2 was abandoned by their own creators, IBM.
I'm waiting for IBM to abandon Linux in favor of their on Mainframe systems
again.

----- Original Message -----
From: "Graham Murray" <graham@barnowl.demon.co.uk>
To: <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Sent: Monday, July 02, 2001 12:40 AM
Subject: Re: Uncle Sam Wants YOU!


> "Jim Roland" <jroland@roland.net> writes:
>
> > What some people don't realize is that Microsoft *DID* do Unix a long
time
> > ago, they were even into OS/2 Development.  :-)
>
> And they annoyed not just a few application vendors when just a few
> months after giving the message "Go with OS/2, it is the way forward",
> they abandoned it in favour of NT.
>
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  reply	other threads:[~2001-07-02  9:19 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 64+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2001-07-01 17:35 Uncle Sam Wants YOU! Adam Schrotenboer
2001-07-01 20:01 ` Paul Mundt
2001-07-01 20:25   ` Adam Schrotenboer
2001-07-02  0:29     ` Jim Roland
2001-07-02  0:56       ` Adam Schrotenboer
2001-07-02  0:59         ` Jim Roland
2001-07-01 20:30   ` Mike Harrold
2001-07-01 21:57   ` Tony Hoyle
     [not found]     ` <3B3FACEC.897D910A@mirai.cx>
2001-07-02  0:06       ` Adam Schrotenboer
2001-07-02  0:31     ` Jim Roland
2001-07-01 22:32   ` Marius Nita
2001-07-01 23:27     ` David Schwartz
2001-07-02  0:03       ` Ben Ford
2001-07-02  0:49         ` Jim Roland
     [not found]           ` <3B3FF9D7.9582B05B@mirai.cx>
2001-07-02  9:18             ` Jim Roland
2001-07-01 23:57     ` Paul Mundt
2001-07-02  0:39     ` Jim Roland
2001-07-02  1:00     ` Justin Guyett
2001-07-02  1:06       ` Dan Hollis
2001-07-02 10:26       ` Luigi Genoni
2001-07-01 23:50   ` Ben Ford
2001-07-02  0:11     ` Paul Mundt
2001-07-02  0:36       ` Ben Ford
2001-07-02  0:45       ` Jim Roland
2001-07-02  5:40         ` Graham Murray
2001-07-02  9:19           ` Jim Roland [this message]
2001-07-02  2:11     ` Jeff V. Merkey
2001-07-02  3:06       ` Kurt Maxwell Weber
2001-07-02  5:37       ` Steve Brueggeman
2001-07-02 13:53   ` Android
2001-07-02  0:26 ` Jim Roland
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2001-07-02 15:09 Jesse Pollard
2001-07-02 17:09 ` William T Wilson
2001-07-02 17:49   ` H. Peter Anvin
2001-07-02 17:56     ` Hua Zhong
2001-07-02 18:36       ` Jim Roland
2001-07-02 18:35     ` Jim Roland
2001-07-02 18:31 ` Jim Roland
     [not found] <fa.eu2vnbv.278lg4@ifi.uio.no>
2001-07-02  0:33 ` Ted Unangst
2001-07-02  2:56   ` Michael Rothwell
     [not found] <20010701131254.A9116@tabris.domedata.com>
2001-07-01 17:41 ` Kurt Maxwell Weber
2001-07-01 18:11   ` Hua Zhong
2001-07-01 19:24     ` Adam Schrotenboer
2001-07-01 20:52     ` Tracy R Reed
2001-07-02  0:13   ` Dan Hollis
2001-07-01  1:36 Rick Hohensee
2001-07-01 10:12 ` Jim Roland
2001-07-01 16:02   ` Rick Hohensee
2001-07-01 16:06     ` Kurt Maxwell Weber
     [not found]       ` <3B3F707C.9BF8BCF7@mirai.cx>
2001-07-01 19:03         ` Kurt Maxwell Weber
2001-07-01 19:24           ` Lew Wolfgang
2001-07-01 20:53             ` David Schwartz
2001-07-01 20:03           ` Jesse Pollard
2001-07-01 20:14             ` Jesse Pollard
2001-07-01 23:53               ` Ben Ford
2001-07-02  1:09                 ` William T Wilson
2001-07-02  1:19                   ` Jim Roland
2001-07-02 19:37                     ` James A. Sutherland
2001-07-02  1:21                   ` Dan Hollis
2001-07-02  1:48                   ` Joel Jaeggli
2001-07-06 19:01                   ` Tracy R Reed
2001-07-06 18:59                 ` Tracy R Reed
2001-07-06 19:34                   ` Richard B. Johnson
2001-07-02  0:20             ` Jim Roland

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