From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from lists.gentoo.org ([140.105.134.102] helo=robin.gentoo.org) by nuthatch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1EXkYk-0000yE-KD for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Thu, 03 Nov 2005 19:15:39 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.5/8.13.5) with SMTP id jA3JCab9026663; Thu, 3 Nov 2005 19:12:36 GMT Received: from NS1.CHANGES.COM (ns1.changes.com [198.252.33.5]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.5/8.13.5) with ESMTP id jA3JCV0w025931 for ; Thu, 3 Nov 2005 19:12:31 GMT Received: from [127.0.0.1] (localhost [127.0.0.1]) (authenticated bits=0) by NS1.CHANGES.COM (8.12.3/8.12.3/SuSE Linux 0.6) with ESMTP id jA3JAgxu013280 for ; Thu, 3 Nov 2005 14:10:43 -0500 Message-ID: <436A6226.7060206@gonoph.net> Date: Thu, 03 Nov 2005 14:16:54 -0500 From: Billy Holmes User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0.7 (X11/20051019) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-amd64@gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-amd64@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 To: gentoo-amd64@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-amd64] OFF-TOPIC but ... you will lough !!! References: <4369825A.2040804@softhome.net> <436A5749.9040306@gonoph.net> <436A8411.8070801@tiscali.nl> In-Reply-To: <436A8411.8070801@tiscali.nl> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: d2b8805a-d356-47a6-abd7-adcccf9e4412 X-Archives-Hash: e9cd83367c8d667a83ac08b741e82d41 Herman Roozenbeek wrote: > The same goes for me... But I really can't believe that nobody at > Microsoft knows why this is so. Unless Linux-users know more about > Microsoft's history than Microsoft itself does. ;-) I have several theories: (1) they want to forget about DOS, and want us to do the same (2) command line? What's that? "nothing to see here, move along." (3) MS programmers may have finally attained that status where they are so removed from the inner workings of the OS through higher level languages that true OS wizardy is only held by a select few. -- gentoo-amd64@gentoo.org mailing list