Microsoft Hatred FAQ

[Tim Tyler]

In comp.lang.java.programmer Peter T. Breuer <ptb at oboe.it.uc3m.es> wrote or quoted:

> Uh - when microsoft produced dos 1.0, or whatever it was, I was sitting
> at my Sun 360 workstation (with 4M of RAM, later upgraded to 8M),
> running SunOS 3.8 or thereabouts.
> 
> And a mean game of tetris it played too. Chess wasn't worth the
> humiliation at level 5.
> 
> I believe every researcher in britain got one as a matter of course, but
> they only replaced the perq machines that everyone had had to put up
> with before then.  The vaxen running hpux or so were plentiful too, and
> had fine monitors, tending more to the PC shape.  We'd made our own word
> processor machines and spreadsheet automatons before that.  It didn't
> take that many components, just a good engineer and a room full of
> lackeys with soddering irons.  The BBC were selling kits too (what were
> they?  Ataris?), not that I ever fell for that.

Acorn computers.  Manufacturers of the best computer I ever owned.
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