Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Mon, 2 Jul 2001 05:19:40 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Mon, 2 Jul 2001 05:19:30 -0400 Received: from 35.roland.net ([65.112.177.35]:59661 "EHLO earth.roland.net") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Mon, 2 Jul 2001 05:19:23 -0400 Message-ID: <016e01c102d8$273cebe0$bb1cfa18@JimWS> From: "Jim Roland" To: , "Graham Murray" In-Reply-To: <3B3F5F5C.40907@lycosmail.com><20010701130151.A10989@ChaoticDreams.ORG><3B3FB754.8040305@kalifornia.com><20010701171101.A13223@ChaoticDreams.ORG><007e01c10290$3f0da6d0$bb1cfa18@JimWS> Subject: Re: Uncle Sam Wants YOU! Date: Mon, 2 Jul 2001 04:19:53 -0500 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.50.4522.1200 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.50.4522.1200 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org 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" To: Sent: Monday, July 02, 2001 12:40 AM Subject: Re: Uncle Sam Wants YOU! > "Jim Roland" 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. > > - > To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in > the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org > More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html > Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/ > - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/