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Subject: RE: Bill Gates gets another blue screen in public
From: "James H H Lampert" <jamesl@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 6 Jan 2005 09:56:51 -0800 (PST)
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I really loved DeGroot's line about
> Microsoft was founded by programmers and is still run by programmers

Try "Founded (and still run) by LOUSY programmers"!

Can you imagine if the software for the Apollo program were written by
Microsloth, instead of by MIT's finest minds? All those "1201 program
alarms" probably would have LITERALLY crashed the Lunar Module.

--
JHHL

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