Interesting.
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He doesn't have to wake up, you know. I have a laser, and we have a garbage disposal. - Pintsize
What does the GUI say about his fill level? IT'S OVER 9000!!!
He doesn't have to wake up, you know. I have a laser, and we have a garbage disposal. - Pintsize
What does the GUI say about his fill level? IT'S OVER 9000!!! 
KermMartian wrote:
Ultimate Dev'r wrote:
Good story, thanks for sharing. It's like the history of DOS, done right.
Glad I still get to mess around with cool operating systems nowadays. Speaking of which, everyone who's interested should check out IBM's Master the Mainframe competition while it's still early. I've already won a tee shirt from part one, and I have my fingers crossed for the part two $100 debit card 
Very good story, I loved the ending, I wish
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TheStorm wrote:
Very good story, I loved the ending, I wish
I saw it coming from a few paragraphs away, but it was still a feel-good ending to the typical Silicon Valley exploitation tale where the little guy usually loses. 
KermMartian wrote:
Good story, thanks for sharing. It's like the history of DOS, done right.
Absolutely nothing in the history of MS-DOS lines up (or is in any way similar) at all with that story.
What the hell are you smoking?
Kllrnohj wrote:
KermMartian wrote:
Good story, thanks for sharing. It's like the history of DOS, done right.
Absolutely nothing in the history of MS-DOS lines up (or is in any way similar) at all with that story.
What the hell are you smoking?
He's probably high off some of Barry's ditch weed
Really though, I assumed Kerm meant that if MS-DOS had been better it would have been made in a fashion similar to this. Or so
something...
Did you guys never see the movie "Pirates of Silicon Valley"?
From Wikipedia: "For this deal, Microsoft purchased a CP/M clone called 86-DOS from Tim Paterson of Seattle Computer Products for less than US$50,000, which IBM renamed to PC-DOS."
From Wikipedia: "For this deal, Microsoft purchased a CP/M clone called 86-DOS from Tim Paterson of Seattle Computer Products for less than US$50,000, which IBM renamed to PC-DOS."
KermMartian wrote:
Did you guys never see the movie "Pirates of Silicon Valley"?
From Wikipedia: "For this deal, Microsoft purchased a CP/M clone called 86-DOS from Tim Paterson of Seattle Computer Products for less than US$50,000, which IBM renamed to PC-DOS."
From Wikipedia: "For this deal, Microsoft purchased a CP/M clone called 86-DOS from Tim Paterson of Seattle Computer Products for less than US$50,000, which IBM renamed to PC-DOS."
I'm guessing you didn't actually read the story then...
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