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   GANEFS! to Stephen Edwards   
   Re: How to kill an OS that's already dea   
   21 Dec 05 16:56:39   
   
   XPost: alt.flame, alt.os.linux   
   From: fart_deco@127.0.0.1   
      
   Stephen Edwards wrote:   
      
   > NunYa Bidness wrote:   
   >> On Mon, 19 Dec 2005 13:26:36 -0500, GANEFS!  Gave   
   >> us:   
   >   
   > 8< SNIP >8   
   >   
   >>>>That would be the baseline   
   >>>>criteria here.   
   >>>   
   >>>ROFL   
   >>   
   >>   
   >>   What?  Does BeOS run on VMS' hardware?   
   >   
   > Now. He's laughing at you, because you don't get it, and   
   > you probably never will.   
      
   ...yeah, that too. :]   
      
   >   
   >>>>  BTW, there are plenty of OSes that beat the pants off of VMS.   
   >>>   
   >>>What, exactly, is your criteria for this?   
   >>   
   >>   
   >>   Any number of factors could be considered.  Hell the new Xbox 360   
   >> likely destroys it. Whoopie doo, it's got a nice big backplane for   
   >> peripheral cards! Oh boy... THAT's hardware.   
   >>   
   >>   
   >>>I could easily charge someone upwards of $200/hr to fix their antique   
   >>>backend VMS system running some custom app that was easier to keep running   
   >>>than hire code-monkeys to recreate.   
   >>   
   >>   
   >>  So what.  Any good engineer can tally that many bananas that fast.   
   >> You are not special, son.   
   >>   
   >>   
   >>> In that respect, VMS/VAX is "tha shiznit", imo.   
   >>   
   >>   
   >>   Nice opinion, but the "pwns" and "bit-chess"  is more than fairly   
   >> immature and even more than fairly lame in Usenet, as it nearly always   
   >> means a troll.   
   >   
   > Unlike your posts, which are meaningful, and informative.   
   >    
   >   
   >>>it does what it was meant to do so well that people still use it after   
   >>>several   
   >>>decades.  what better argument is there, ya know?  sheesh.   
   >>   
   >>   
   >>   Fine. Fine opinion. Again, it was the added CRAP that makes the   
   >> whole declaration, and you look bad.   
   >>   
   >>   
   >>>> Since   
   >>>>you have spanned hardware platforms, I could also easily and correctly   
   >>>>contend that there are plenty of hardware platforms that beat the   
   >>>>pants off it as well.  Whom is owned?  In this thread, that'd be you.   
   >>>   
   >>>the only better hardware platform, historically is probably Z80.  :)   
   >>   
   >>   
   >>  Your brain must have gotten bent when that black hole ejected you :-]   
   >   
   > Uh, do you even know what a Z80 is to begin with? Let me give you a   
   > hint: it's not a sports car he's referring to.   
      
   actually, i *was* talking about my phat ride.  i got two bass toobs in the   
   back for when i pump up teh jamz, mang.   
      
   >   
   >>>> Sheesh.  Troll boy acts all intelligent, then utilizes lame, gang boy   
   >>>>net lingo.  How mature... NOT!   
   >>>   
   >>>you just wait until my crew comes in to back me up, yo.  you'll be eating   
   >>>those words, mang.   
   >>   
   >>   
   >>   Yep, mosh pit punk material...  E-1 grade.   
   >> Your posted "e-mail addy" fits you.   
   >>   
   >>   If you do not know that there are much better computers running much   
   >> better OSes out there today, then you have been inside for too long   
   >> since your discharge.   
   >   
   > Coming from a person who probably still needs help from his mother to   
   > get dressed. It baffles my mind how people such as yourself manage to   
   > figure out how to use their USENET clients.   
      
   i assumed that someone/something else was transposing the babbly-ing on their   
   behalf.  perhaps some voice-to-text program?   
      
   --   
   Roberta "Foxymopjockeychickenwrist" Wolfe   
           "The talk of the sekret AUK   
           off-newsgroup listserves!"   
      
   >>>>> Hmmmmmm. Is this the Mop Jockey or Alexa?   
      
   >>>> Moppy.   
      
   >>>Are you sure? It had an Alexa/babaloonie addy (one or the other, I   
   >>>forget which now)...   
      
   >> mop jockey started the "Fart Deco" froggery, which was then adopted by   
   >> the oh_brutha20002 sockpuppet machine/fanboi.  "FArt Deco" is/was   
   >> oh_brutha.   
      
   > Right, right...I still contend, however, that Alexa is the most likely   
   > candidate for the wearer of the oh_brutha/babaloonie sock, simply because   
   > the style resembles hers quite closely (IMO), posting through Google while   
   > also using a newsreader (Agent 2.0) is easy enough, and oh_brutha seems to   
   > be going after some of Alexa's favourite targets with much the same   
   > attitude as whereisthemoney.org. Plus, of course, she [isn't] happy if   
   > she isn't socking-up all the time...   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)   

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