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

Posted in 2004

Topics: General Discussion

Captain Pedantic — — source: Usenet: comp.databases.informix

"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.

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Andrew Hamm — — source: Usenet: comp.databases.informix

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.

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Enor Mouspenis — — source: Usenet: comp.databases.informix

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? -- Enor

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Ronald Cole — — source: Usenet: comp.databases.informix

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. -- Forte International, P.O. Box 1412, Ridgecrest, CA 93556-1412 Ronald Cole <ronald@forte-intl.com> Phone: (760) 499-9142 President, CEO Fax: (760) 499-9152 My GPG fingerprint: C3AF 4BE9 BEA6 F1C2 B084 4A88 8851 E6C8 69E3 B00B

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