Re: TI-H: The End of the Holy War

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Re: TI-H: The End of the Holy War


You count BeOs as a *nix?

   Markus Räty
(markus@raty.as)

----- Original Message -----
From: Robin Kirkman <misty@drrobin.yi.org>
To: <ti-hardware@lists.ticalc.org>
Sent: Sunday, June 04, 2000 9:22 PM
Subject: Re: TI-H: The End of the Holy War


>
> -I- have a better idea...
> Use Linux.
>
> I was, myself, a microserf once too.
> I despised the macintosh and all that it was.
> I was in awe of the amazing power of Windows 95.
> And I wouldneither speak nor see nor hear evil (aka anti-microsoft...)
>
> Then, my dad offered to pay me to give linux a chance.
> I was skeptical.
>
> "It's... I dunno... But it's not Microsoft! It -can't- be better! Bill
Gates is
> my personal god!"
>
> But I tried linux anyways.
> Within an hour, I was hooked.
>
> As of yet, I have not voluntariry used Windows in nearly two years.
>
> Are you up to the challenge?
>
> Try the unix way.
> Give it a chance.
>
> You might just get a glimmer of what you've been missing.
> --robin
>
>
> "Archon(David)" wrote:
> >
> > Yeah, well, I just found Billy Gates is a lefty too, confound it all.
> > Anyway, do you have a better idea?
> >
> > -David
> >
> > At 11:09 PM 6/2/00 -0800, you wrote:
> > >
> > > THATS just stupid.
> > >
> > >
> > >>I have come, not to start a holy war, not to re-enflame one, but to
end
> > >>one. I speak, of course, of the infamous Macintosh vs. IBM/Windows
> > >>computers Jihad. I have the final proof. Macintoshes are indeed evil.
I
> > >>shall make no statement concerning the alignment of IBMs *ahem*, but
> > >>Macintoshes must be evil. My line of reasoning? Why, that's simple. I
> > >>recently found out that 4 out of the 5 people who designed the Apple
> > >>Macintosh computer were left handed! Ha! You may be the first to hear
it!
> > >>The war is over! Microsoft reigns victorious.
> > >>
> > >>-David
> > >>p.s. Yeah, it's way way way way off-topic, but I don't have any better
> > >>ideas, plus I'm bored.
> > >>p.p.s. The list seems kind of dead lately, so that's why I'm doing
this (in
> > >>case you care/wonder).
> > >>"[I]f there be one of them all, that has not cursed his life many a
time,
> > >>that has not frequently looked upon himself as the unhappiest of
mortals, I
> > >>give you leave to throw me headforemost into the sea."
> > >>-Voltaire, Candide
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > "[I]f there be one of them all, that has not cursed his life many a
time,
> > that has not frequently looked upon himself as the unhappiest of
mortals, I
> > give you leave to throw me headforemost into the sea."
> > -Voltaire, Candide
>
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