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   Paul Edwards to BGB   
   Re: z/PDOS-generic   
   21 Aug 24 04:31:16   
   
   From: mutazilah@gmail.com   
      
   "BGB"  wrote in message   
   news:v7na8l$12737$1@dont-email.me...   
      
   > But, now I am an aging millennial and have arguably not accomplished all   
   > that much with my life.   
      
   Didn't you email me decades ago to get some changes implemented   
   to PDPCLIB and you mentioned you were writing a phenomenal   
   number of lines of code per day? Where did all that effort go?   
      
   Regardless, what sort of thing would you consider to be   
   "accomplished a significant amount"? You're not going to   
   single-handedly reproduce Windows 11. So if that is the   
   bar, no-one at all has accomplished much. It's even difficult   
   to credit Windows itself. Who are you going to credit?   
   Tim Paterson? Or Bill Gates's father's (or was it his mother's?)   
   money?   
      
   Note that I am not dismissing Bill Gates's technical achievements   
   with Microsoft BASIC, but that's not Windows 11 by a very   
   very very long shot.   
      
   BFN. Paul.   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)   

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