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From: Michael.Lightfoot@canb.auug.org.au
Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.misc,comp.os.linux.misc,comp.os.os2.advocacy,alt.folklore.computers
Subject: Re: Linux thoroughly insulted by Infoworld!
Date: 26 Jan 1995 12:54:36 GMT
Organization: SysIX Unix Systems Consulting
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In <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!
>
or even Trabant?
(less powerful than the average lawnmower, with a 2-stroke engine
and even more legendary for unreliability than the Lada.  Hell the Lada
is a Rolls Royce compared to the Trabbie.)

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Michael Lightfoot                                                      
SysIX Unix Systems Consulting         Int +61 6 258 8185  
                                                          06 258 8185  
Michael.Lightfoot@canb.auug.org.au      fax  06 258 1945 
enw@babylon5.DSS.gov.au                                         
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Unix?... Oh, I see.  Better tell the nurse not to bother.
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