Re: How long a future? (was: An interesting meeting with IBM)

Ronald Cole wrote: > Enor Mouspenis <enormouspenis@hotmail.com> writes: >> Andrew Hamm wrote: >>> Captain Pedantic wrote: >>>> "Andrew Hamm" <ahamm@mail.com> wrote in message >>>> news:c5ksva$2su0s$1@ID-79573.news.uni-berlin.de... >>>> >>>>> Funny thing is, when I was a junior programmer, IBM was the evil >>>>> empire that would be slain by microprocessors, CP/M and MS-DOS 1 >>>>> using MS-Pascal. Funny how times change. >>>> >>>> Yes, we all love IBM now. >>> >>> ummmm, yeerrrrrssssss...... >>> >>> I was thinking more along the lines that the upstart Microsoft has >>> become an evil empire all of it's own making. >> >> Someone here is telling me word "irony". What this mean, please? > > Mr. Mousepenis, it means that you are soon to suffer the liberal > application of a clue stick about the head and shoulders. I've got > some salve for that. Am sorry but not unberstand this? -- Enor