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Re: [SOLVED] Re: One-user system.

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Charlie Gibbs <cgibbs@surfnaked.ca> writes:

> (... thanks ...)
> If Microsoft disappeared in its entirety, I'd buy a case of
> champagne and invite my friends over for a _major_ celebration.
> ...

That's a great idea!

> I'm 71, and started my programming career in 1970, five
> years before Microsoft existed.  The machine at my first
> job had a whopping 16K of memory.  We were a service
> bureau, running things like payroll and accounts
> receivable for companies all over town who couldn't
> afford a computer of their own (i.e. most of them).
>
> So when someone tells me how many gigabytes of memory
> I'd need to do a job, I take it with a _very_ large
> grain of salt.
>
>     We, the unwilling, led by the unknowing, are doing the
>     impossible for the ungrateful.  We have done so much,
>     for so long, with so little, we are now qualified
>     to do anything with nothing.”
>       -- Konstantin Josef Jireček
>

Thanks!

Sincerely, Linux fan Byung-Hee

-- 
^고맙습니다 _布德天下_ 감사합니다_^))//

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