RE: Microsoft Tries to Cozy Up to Mainframe, iSeries Users

I'm surprised your keyboard has an "s".  I would have thought you'd be using 
the dollar sign instead.  I'm no Microsoft fan, but calling them names doesn't 
reinforce your argument.
 

> -----Original Message-----
> From: James H H Lampert [mailto:jamesl@xxxxxxxxxxx] 
> Sent: Wednesday, August 25, 2004 6:36 PM
> To: midrange-l@xxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: RE: Microsoft Tries to Cozy Up to Mainframe, iSeries Users
> 
> > And the win32 API, well, I worked with Windows APIs for years, and 
> > I've never seen a worse API.  But that's just my judgment.
> 
> I have. Anybody remember the one that (I think) was called "Win32s"?
> Microschlong put it out there while Lose95 was still in 
> development, inviting developers to write to it, but 
> cautioning them that it was temporary.
> 
> Then when Lose95 came out, the other shoe dropped, and we saw 
> just how much of Win32s was temporary, and just how temporary 
> it was: NOTHING that ANYBODY wrote to it was any good any 
> more, and EVERYBODY who wrote ANYTHING to it learned that 
> they'd just wasted hundreds of dollars on useless development 
> tools, and spent several months engaged in a self-indulgent 
> act that probably ought not be mentioned on a family list 
> server (but think about  Reverend Johnson, in Blazing 
> Saddles: "Oh Lord.
> Do we have the strength to carry on this mighty task in one 
> night? Or are we just . . .")
> 
> --
> JHHL
> 
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