phantom files

Derek Broughton news at pointerstop.ca
Thu Sep 11 19:51:18 UTC 2008


David Vincent wrote:

> Mark Haney wrote:
>> Karl Larsen wrote:
>> 
>>>     If your over 50 years old, 100% of you are old Windows and/or DOS
>>> users. That was what was there before Linux. I enjoyed my old 1984 100%
>>> Microsoft capable clone for many years with DOS on it. I recall in
>>> College about 5% of the students bought DOS and the other 95% borrowed
>>> from them. DOS was the original free operating system :-)
>>>
>>>     Since then they have spent big bucks making it hard to copy the
>>> latest Windows.
> 
>> You are NOT serious.  Are you kidding me?
> 
> afaik he *is* kidding you.  note the :-) after his joke.  perhaps the
> word "borrowed" should have been in quotes?

That's what I thought he meant, too.  I can't believe I'm sticking up for
Karl...
-- 
derek





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