Charlie Gibbs <cgi...@surfnaked.ca> writes: > (... thanks ...) > If Microsoft disappeared in its entirety, I'd buy a case of > champagne and invite my friends over for a _major_ celebration. > ...
That's a great idea! > I'm 71, and started my programming career in 1970, five > years before Microsoft existed. The machine at my first > job had a whopping 16K of memory. We were a service > bureau, running things like payroll and accounts > receivable for companies all over town who couldn't > afford a computer of their own (i.e. most of them). > > So when someone tells me how many gigabytes of memory > I'd need to do a job, I take it with a _very_ large > grain of salt. > > We, the unwilling, led by the unknowing, are doing the > impossible for the ungrateful. We have done so much, > for so long, with so little, we are now qualified > to do anything with nothing.” > -- Konstantin Josef Jireček > Thanks! Sincerely, Linux fan Byung-Hee -- ^고맙습니다 _布德天下_ 감사합니다_^))//
