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Date: Tue, 1 Apr 2003 10:14:07 -0500 (EST)
From: Igor Pechtchanski <pechtcha AT cs DOT nyu DOT edu>
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To: Thorsten Kampe <thorsten AT thorstenkampe DOT de>
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Subject: Re: ls Question + bug?
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On Tue, 1 Apr 2003, Thorsten Kampe wrote:

> * Hannu E K Nevalainen (garbage mail) (03-04-01 11:30 +0100)
> >> From: cygwin-owner AT cygwin DOT com [mailto:cygwin-owner AT cygwin DOT com]On Behalf Of Thorsten Kampe
> >>> Really soon -> a dead computer. (Powercycling is all that works after that)
> >>
> >> Your computer cannot be more dead than Windows 98 already is. Using an
> >> Operating System would you give something like "maximum recursion
> >> limit exceeded".
> >
> >  ;-) as I see it any MS generated "OS" has strange limitations/obscurities,
> > the above is an obvious one in W98.
> >  Remember where it all began; "Quick And Dirty Dos" -> very few changes ->
> > "MS-DOS 1.0".
>
> NT 4, 5 ("2000"), 5.1 ("XP") and now 5.2 ("Server 2003") have a stable
> kernel that doesn't have its roots in DOS.
>
> > IMO the sense of it is still there, even in NT. Can't tell about XP - but I
> > would be surprised if the changes were that many.
>
> XP is the first rocksolid Windows OS.
> [snip]
> Thorsten

... with completely unrealistic licensing (see the last paragraph of
<http://www.aaxnet.com/editor/edit029.html#office>).
	Igor
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