Re: How long a future? (was: An interesting meeting with IBM)
A brief off-topic exchange about IBM and Microsoft: Captain Pedantic said sarcastically that everyone loves IBM now, and Andrew Hamm said he meant Microsoft had become an evil empire of its own making. Enor Mouspenis asked what irony means and Ronald Cole replied jokingly. No technical content.
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"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.
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.
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
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