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Message no. 1
From: Martin Steffens <chimerae@***.IE>
Subject: Re: (Car) compainies
Date: Fri, 7 Aug 1998 23:39:28 +0000
and thus did Lehlan Decker speak on 7 Aug 98 at 8:55:

> LOL! Excellent, however, I think the seattle sourcebook, mentions
> Microdeck in Redmond, and it seemed to allude it was Microsoft
> without the name. (At least I thought it did). I'll have to double
> check tonight. It was still big, but not even close to a AAA.

You're right! How could I've missed this before:

Seattle: Bellevue: p. 71
Microdeck Industries
Microdeck Plaza, Main Street & 124 Avenue NE/ Brain W. GATES III,
chairman of the board / No Racial bias / etc.

Microdeck has been a leading publisher of computer software for
almost as long as there have been computers. The company was founded,
and is still owned and run, by the Gates family to develop software
for small business and home use, but operations soon expanded to
include manufacture of militairy and aerospace software. The company
has maintained its reputation through six generations of the Gates
family.

Now that last sentence is a nice one ;)
Militairy and aerospace MS software scares the $&* out of me: "
General Protection Fault on aeroplane module engine.
Do you want to:
Bail out | restart | die ?

Karina & Martin Steffens
chimerae@***.ie
Message no. 2
From: bryan.covington@****.COM
Subject: Re: (Car) compainies
Date: Mon, 10 Aug 1998 10:16:11 -0400
> for small business and home use, but operations soon expanded to
> include manufacture of militairy and aerospace software. The company
> has maintained its reputation through six generations of the Gates
> family.
>
> Now that last sentence is a nice one ;)
> Militairy and aerospace MS software scares the $&* out of me: "
> General Protection Fault on aeroplane module engine.
> Do you want to:
> Bail out | restart | die ?
>
Hell that's better than everything locking up and
turning blue. (this happens regularly here at work on my NT workstation)
Message no. 3
From: John E Pederson <pedersje@******.ROSE-HULMAN.EDU>
Subject: Re: (Car) compainies
Date: Mon, 10 Aug 1998 09:28:59 -0500
bryan.covington@****.COM wrote:
>
> > for small business and home use, but operations soon expanded to
> > include manufacture of militairy and aerospace software. The company
> > has maintained its reputation through six generations of the Gates
> > family.
> >
> > Now that last sentence is a nice one ;)
> > Militairy and aerospace MS software scares the $&* out of me: "
> > General Protection Fault on aeroplane module engine.
> > Do you want to:
> > Bail out | restart | die ?
> >
> Hell that's better than everything locking up and
> turning blue. (this happens regularly here at work on my NT workstation)

Scary thought for you: the Navy is already using NT

Check this one out:
http://www.slashdot.org/articles/980721/1049204.shtml

--
John Pederson otherwise known as Lyle Canthros, shapeshifter-mage
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Message no. 4
From: Lehlan Decker <DeckerL@******.COM>
Subject: Re: (Car) compainies -Reply
Date: Mon, 10 Aug 1998 10:38:44 -0400
> Hell that's better than everything locking up and
> turning blue. (this happens regularly here at work on my NT
workstation)
>Scary thought for you: the Navy is already using NT
>Check this one out:
>http://www.slashdot.org/articles/980721/1049204.shtml

Interesting to know I'm not the only person who
reads that site. :)
This goes back to that argument that if our car died and
restarted every little bit, or everytime you wanted to
change the channel, you would call it crap, and say it
was defective, but we've come to accept this from windows.
But this is back to the OS war thing, and I'm guessing we
should behave before Dvixen melts our faces. :)
Besides..I'd waiting for my copy of SR3!
Tommorow..tommorow its only a day away........

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Message no. 5
From: Greg Symons <gsymons@******.TEMPLE.EDU>
Subject: Re: (Car) compainies
Date: Mon, 10 Aug 1998 12:21:46 -0400
>bryan.covington@****.COM wrote:
>>
>> > for small business and home use, but operations soon expanded to
>> > include manufacture of militairy and aerospace software. The
company
>> > has maintained its reputation through six generations of the
Gates
>> > family.
>> >
>> > Now that last sentence is a nice one ;)
>> > Militairy and aerospace MS software scares the $&* out of me: "
>> > General Protection Fault on aeroplane module engine.
>> > Do you want to:
>> > Bail out | restart | die ?
>> >
>> Hell that's better than everything locking up and
>> turning blue. (this happens regularly here at work on my NT
workstation)
>
>Scary thought for you: the Navy is already using NT
>
>Check this one out:
>http://www.slashdot.org/articles/980721/1049204.shtml
>
I read recently that NT was crashing so often that the Navy is now
getting rid of it from the "Smart Ships" program and is moving to Unix
(don't remember the flavor). In fact, once the system crashed so hard
as to leave the prototype ship dead in the water for several hours.

You _know_ somethin's bad if it's not good enough for the gov't:)

Greg



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Message no. 6
From: Logan Graves <logan1@*****.INTERCOM.NET>
Subject: Re: (Car) compainies
Date: Mon, 10 Aug 1998 21:36:15 -0400
In our last episode, John E Pederson wrote:

> Scary thought for you: the Navy is already using NT

Well, not the whole US Navy, but it's in the works (prolly within the
next 1-3 years they'll *all* be on NT).

Hell, they just got Win95 installed Navy-wide a year & a half ago.

--Fenris (who contracts to write software for 'em)

_______________________________________________logan1@*****.intercom.net
(>) You call me a "bitch" like it's a bad thing.
(>) Vixen

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