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Re: False alarm for Microsoft

  • Subject: Re: False alarm for Microsoft
  • From: Roy Schestowitz <newsgroups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Thu, 09 Mar 2006 16:28:07 +0000
  • Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.advocacy
  • Organization: schestowitz.com / MCC / Manchester University
  • References: <idYPf.42122$_c.24595@tornado.tampabay.rr.com> <fb06e3-o2i.ln1@cern.frontroom>
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__/ [ Richard G. Riley ] on Thursday 09 March 2006 16:05 \__

>  "billwg"posted the following on 2006-03-09:
> 
>> http://blogs.zdnet.com/Burnette/index.php?p=25
>>
>> Roy boy and company find there is nothing so boring or bad for the linux
>> cause than the truth.
>>
>>
> 
> "But IBM is not currently planning to switch employees using Windows
> to Red Hat"
> 
> Ouch. That was a bad misquote then. Mind you, after the OS/2 debacle,
> never look to IBM for any directions in terms of desktop OS. The head
> never knows what the tail is doing, and frequently its the tail that
> wags the dog.


C:/> dir

Volume in drive C is MS-DOS_6.22 
Volume Serial Number is lE49-15E2 
Directory of C:\ 

WINDOWS      <DIR>    09-08-92 10:27p 
TEMP         <DIR>    05-15-92 12:09p 
CONFIG  SYS       278 09-23-92 10:50a 
COMMAND COM     53014 09-18-92 6:00a 
WINA20  386      9349 11-11-91 5:00a 
DOS          <DIR>    09-02-92 4:23p 
AUTOEXEC BAT      290 09-23-92 10:54a 
BILLGW  ZIP        30 09-23-92 10:54a 

               7 file(s) 63021 bytes 
                            72 bytes free 
                            ^^

C:/> pkunzip billgw.zip

BRAIN.DAT: 1 file extracted successfully.

C:/> dir

Volume in drive C is MS-DOS_6.22 
Volume Serial Number is lE49-15E2 
Directory of C:\ 

WINDOWS      <DIR>    09-08-92 10:27p 
TEMP         <DIR>    05-15-92 12:09p 
CONFIG  SYS       278 09-23-92 10:50a 
COMMAND COM     53014 09-18-92 6:00a 
WINA20  386      9349 11-11-91 5:00a 
DOS          <DIR>    09-02-92 4:23p 
AUTOEXEC BAT      290 09-23-92 10:54a 
BILLGW  ZIP        30 09-23-92 10:54a 
BRAIN  DAT         42 09-23-92 10:54a 

               7 file(s) 62931 bytes 
                            12 bytes free 
                            ^^

C:/> mv brain.dat /dev/null | grep 'file too small'

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