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Freitag, 22. März 2002

www.tightvnc.com

2002-03-22-tVNC

Amazing Vanilla-Feature du dour: The Backlink Browser!

earl.strain.at/space/comments-2002-03-22

Grandios.

2002-03-22-vanillaFeature

"The [Microsoft] love affair with Unix/[create Xenix] was company-wide, although not necessarily shared by the grunts, as one former grunt writes:

'I think Gates first tried to sell Xenix to IBM who, afraid of what a post-breakup AT&T could do to their markets, wanted nothing to do with it. [This seems plausible, as Gates would surely try to sell something he already had, rather than something he was going to have to grab quick. Nice footwork though, Bill]

'Anyway, when I worked there back in the mid 80's every poor sod in the company from Bill down to the mail clerks had a Xenix terminal on their desk and used it daily for email at least. Meaning every poor sod had to master vi before they could request vacation time [...]'"

2002-03-22-xenixVision

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2002-03-22-antiPatterns

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