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Xref: sserve comp.os.386bsd.misc:5142 comp.os.linux.misc:34266 comp.os.os2.advocacy:76739 alt.folklore.computers:72295 Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!bunyip.cc.uq.oz.au!munnari.oz.au!spool.mu.edu!howland.reston.ans.net!pipex!uknet!acorn!not-for-mail From: wturner@acorn.co.uk (William Turner) Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.misc,comp.os.linux.misc,comp.os.os2.advocacy,alt.folklore.computers Subject: Re: Linux thoroughly insulted by Infoworld! Date: 28 Jan 1995 14:36:50 -0000 Organization: Acorn Computers Ltd, Cambridge, England Lines: 23 Message-ID: <3gdkq2$eu2@acorn.acorn.co.uk> References: <3fv5jm$ie6@plato.simons-rock.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: acorn.acorn.co.uk In article <3fv5jm$ie6@plato.simons-rock.edu> karl@plato.simons-rock.edu (Karl A. Krueger) writes: >In article <3fusq3$1cu7@whale.st.usm.edu>, >John William Chambless <chambles@whale.st.usm.edu> wrote: > >>>This is why I call MS-DOS the "Budweiser of operating systems"! :-) >>Nah. Maybe the Thunderbird of operating systems -- >>it's cheap, available everywhere, and it makes me puke. > >Thunderbird? Try Lada! > >(cheap Soviet car, falls apart, coughs gak in the air like no tomorrow, >and breaks down.) Sorry, but I'm going to have to stand up for the poor maligned Lada - mine _Was_ cheap, but they _DONT_ fall apart (try a head-on with a Range Rover & see the RR come off worst), and don't cough gak into the air either..... >-- >-- Karl William