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From: Aharon Robbins <arnold@skeeve.com>
To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu
Subject: Re: [9fans] pathetic
Date: Wed, 25 Feb 2004 18:26:36 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <200402251626.i1PGQaBr001778@skeeve.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.44.0402250822260.9147-100000@maxroach.lanl.gov>

In article <Pine.LNX.4.44.0402250822260.9147-100000@maxroach.lanl.gov> Ron Minnich wrote:
>I really love the PC world. The only reason they have not claimed
>invention of the wheel is that they don't need it yet.
>
>ron

Being inventive about the truth is nothing new in the computer world. Note
well IBM's claim to having invented virtual memory.  The guys at that
university in England (Manchester?) had nothing to do with it.

Arnold


  parent reply	other threads:[~2004-02-25 16:26 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 49+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2004-02-25 15:26 ron minnich
2004-02-25 15:41 ` Derek Fawcus
2004-02-25 16:02   ` ron minnich
2004-02-26  1:15     ` Derek Fawcus
2004-02-26  3:45       ` ron minnich
2004-02-26  4:12         ` Derek Fawcus
2004-02-26  6:48         ` boyd, rounin
2004-02-26  6:41       ` boyd, rounin
2004-02-25 16:26 ` Aharon Robbins [this message]
2004-02-26  6:02 ` boyd, rounin
2004-02-26 10:41 ` Douglas A. Gwyn
2004-02-26 11:32   ` Charles Forsyth
2004-02-26 11:33     ` Geoff Collyer
2004-02-26 12:39     ` Dave Lukes
2004-02-26 12:11       ` boyd, rounin
2004-02-26 13:42   ` dbailey27
2004-02-26 14:36   ` ron minnich
2004-02-26 14:41     ` David Presotto
2004-02-26 14:40       ` dbailey27
2004-02-26 14:47       ` ron minnich
2004-02-26 14:44         ` dbailey27
2004-02-26 15:28           ` ron minnich
2004-02-26 15:38             ` George Michaelson
2004-02-26 16:16               ` ron minnich
2004-02-26 17:32                 ` [9fans] SPF+SMTP C H Forsyth
2004-03-01 10:34               ` [9fans] pathetic Vin McLellan
2004-02-26 15:38             ` dbailey27
2004-02-26 14:58               ` andrey mirtchovski
2004-02-26 15:53                 ` dbailey27
2004-02-27  9:01             ` boyd, rounin
2004-02-27 10:52               ` Geoff Collyer
2004-02-27 13:07                 ` David Presotto
2004-02-27 20:26                   ` Lyndon Nerenberg
2004-02-27 22:22                   ` Tristan Seligmann
2004-02-27 23:36                   ` Geoff Collyer
2004-02-27 13:42                 ` Dave Lukes
2004-02-27 15:42                   ` a
2004-02-27 17:45                     ` 9nut
2004-02-27 23:10                     ` boyd, rounin
2004-02-29 21:11                     ` boyd, rounin
2004-02-26 15:16         ` C H Forsyth
2004-02-26 15:37           ` Dave Lukes
2004-02-26 17:55         ` jmk
2004-02-26 19:23           ` Richard Miller
2004-02-26 19:35             ` jmk
2004-02-26 19:50               ` Richard Miller
2004-02-27 11:04           ` Dan Moniz
2004-02-26 20:46     ` boyd, rounin
2004-02-26 15:37 ` Derek Fawcus

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