From: robint@helium.gas.uug.arizona.edu (Robin B Thomas) Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers,alt.religion.kibology,comp.os.ms-windows.advo cacy,comp.os.linux.misc,alt.fan.mike-dahmus Subject: Re: Windows emulation was Re: Microsoft Invented Inferior Personal C>From the _Pocket Guide to Consumer-Oriented Operating Systems of the Late Twentieth Century_, DisneyTimeWarnerQVC Publishing, US$450.00:
Windows -- Excellent Solitaire environment with limited file utilities bundled;
Windows NT / Cairo -- open-systems Solitaire;
OS/2 -- Elaborate front for NCAA hush money from IBM (see FIESTA BOWL);
Mac OS -- proprietary commercial OS for Kinko's and AlphaGraphics; developed to force customers to do low-margin design work themselves;
Newton -- Trilateral Commission plot to disseminate RACTER's prophecies to unsuspecting masses;
Unix -- hypnotic puzzle designed to occupy the better-educated population and divert their attention from consolidation of international police state^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H community (see HAPPYNET);
Woulda gotten more, but the time portal closed. Have to get more peyote and ironwood for the sweat lodge fire...
-- Robin
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