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From: Richard Riehle <laoXhai@ix.netcom.com>
Subject: Re: geese guys!
Date: 2000/09/18
Date: 2000-09-19T02:36:15+00:00	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <39C6D123.C21BD1F6@ix.netcom.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 39C2AEF4.C882E59F@swbell.net



John Magness wrote:

>
> But consider what a blessing Windows is to the world economy!
> Think of all the jobs created due to the requirement to continuously
> maintain all that wretched MS software.  The pager industry alone would
> be half its  present size with out the demand for on call MS
> administrators!
> John

Reminds me of the "good old days" when we needed to hire a battalion of
systems programmers
to keep an IBM OS, DOS, or other IBM mainframe system operational from one
day to the next.

Richard Riehle
AdaWorks Software Engineering
http://www.adaworks.com







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2000-09-18  0:00     ` Richard Riehle [this message]
2000-09-19  0:00     ` geese guys! Ted Dennison
2000-09-19  5:05     ` wv12
2000-09-19  0:00       ` E. Robert Tisdale
2000-09-19  0:00       ` Tarjei T. Jensen
2000-09-19  0:00         ` Ted Dennison
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