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Re: ls Question + bug?
- From: Igor Pechtchanski <pechtcha at cs dot nyu dot edu>
- To: Thorsten Kampe <thorsten at thorstenkampe dot de>
- Cc: cygwin at cygwin dot com
- Date: Tue, 1 Apr 2003 10:14:07 -0500 (EST)
- Subject: Re: ls Question + bug?
- Reply-to: cygwin at cygwin dot com
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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