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From: "Jon A. Lambert" <jlsysinc@ix.netcom.com>
Newsgroups: nu.kanga.list.mud-dev
Date: Tue, 16 Jun 1998 23:15:58 -5
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Organization: Kanga.Nu
On 16 Jun 98, Katrina McClelan wrote:
> On Tue, 16 Jun 1998, J C Lawrence wrote:
>
> > Unix and C are the ultimate computer viruses.
>
> Interesting way to refer to them. I guess that makes Windows 95 a
> new birth defect that we're still trying to find a cure for? :)
Well yeah, sort of. It's a genetic mutation that is a further step
on the chain of OS evolution. Kind of like a transition from homo
erectus to homo sapiens neanderthalis. While erectus used simple and
blunt tools, neanderthalis used more complex assemblies of tools.
Erectus never did find a cure for these "birth defects". :P
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