Re: Crap UNIX joke (fwd)

Michael T Buchanon (buchanon@studentb.msu.edu) Thu, 20 Oct 1994 13:55:01 -0400


[article forwarded from Michael T Buchanon (buchanon@studentb.msu.edu)]

Path: msuinfo!agate!howland.reston.ans.net!pipex!uunet!Germany.EU.net!netmbx.de!zib-berlin.de!news.th-darmstadt.de!hrz-ws11.hrz.uni-kassel.de!newsserver.r Date: 13 Oct 1994 21:12:00 +0100 From: lmb@pointer.in-minden.de (Lars Marowsky-Bree) Newsgroups: rec.humor Message-ID: <5YnVhNDuKRB@pointer.in-minden.de> References: <1994Sep30.121329.5822@datcon.co.uk> <1994Oct6.182126.21415@schbbs.mot.com> <9410101509.AA0003t@rickyp.demon.co.uk> Subject: Re: Crap UNIX joke X-Newsreader: XP v3.02 R/A1987 Lines: 21

Quoting rik@rickyp.demon.co.uk (Richard Pluck) , topic 'Re: Crap UNIX joke', group /rec/humor, stardate 10.10.94:

>: > >This Pentium UNIX server is so fast, I type sleep 10 and it returns in >: > >5 seconds! >: > Oh yeah? Well *my* SMP dual-Pentium server is so fast, it can complete >: > an infinite loop in 13.6 seconds. >: That's nothing! My PowerPC AIX machine boots up before I turn it on! >You think that's quick ... my new SuperSPARC just finished compiling the >program I'm gonna write tomorrow

Pah... Windows is able to crash 20 times a minute! Can anybody compete with THAT? NO? See... Windows is the fastest "OS" around;-)

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