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From: vallor <vallor@cultnix.org>
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Subject: Re: Workstation Aesthetics
Date: 10 Jun 2024 13:43:23 GMT
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> On 2024-06-10 8:28 a.m., Chris Ahlstrom wrote:
>> Andrzej Matuch wrote this copyrighted missive and expects royalties:
>> 
>>> On 2024-06-07 8:41 a.m., DFS wrote:
>>>> On 6/7/2024 7:22 AM, Chris Ahlstrom wrote:
>>>>> Lawrence D'Oliveiro wrote this copyrighted missive and expects
>>>>> royalties:
>>>>>
>>>>>> On Wed, 5 Jun 2024 13:31:56 -0400, DFS wrote:
>>>>>>
>>>>>>> On 6/4/2024 7:36 PM, Lawrence D'Oliveiro wrote:
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> Remember, the big advance in Windows 95 was in actually having a
>>>>>>>> “Start” menu for the first time.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Another feature for bereft-of-ideas GuhNoo/FOSS copycats to clone.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> *nix systems had application menus some years before that. Remember
>>>>>> they had GUIs before Microsoft Windows even existed.
>>>>>
>>>>> Heh, I remember seeing a demo of Windows 1 (1985). It was shit
>>>>> compared to the Atari ST.
>>>>
>>>> That was before Windows gave you a career and a house and a wife.
>> 
>> Asinine.
>> 
>> My career actually got started on a PDP-11 and a DEC-10. Then a
>> VIC-20/C-64. Then an Atari ST. Then a Sun. Then DOS.
> 
> Did you enjoy the ST? I always get the impression that had I owned a
> computer other than a cheap TI994/A back then, I would have been in love
> with the ST. The Amiga was clearly better, but the Atari name still held
> some weight back then.
> 
>> It's not my fault that Billy's cheap crap was popular with PHBs.
> 
> I guess I'm ignorant here. What's a PHB?

Pointy-Haired Boss, from the world of Dilbert.[*]

But that's not why I'm writing...

> 
>>> Does his wife blue screen a lot?
>> 
>> DFS sure knows a lot about blue screens.
> 
> And there is no doubt that he's faced a few too.

I move he be nicknamed "Blue-screen Bob".

[*] I remember reading Scott Adam's book that ended with
the chapter on "affirmations".  Sometimes that guy isn't
all there.

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