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Technology Stocks : Microsoft vs. Linux

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To: dybdahl who wrote (9)	2/1/2001 11:20:02 PM
From: Andy Thomas	Read Replies (1) of 32

one thing silverberg did do (which i was thankful for since i was using the same app), was he insisted that his 'tapcis' (automated compuserve text mode app) worked under win95. this helped ensure a lowest-common denominator for servicing text-based comm apps at the time. as bad as the win95 comm driver may have been, at least silverberg ensured through his use of tapcis - and pointing out to the developers problems he found - that it would work to some degree. when i realized the vp was using tapcis, it kind of gave me a lift. so many of the muckety-mucks there had gone 'graphical' by then. there was this huge influx of college grads who'd never seen a command line. 5 or 6 years after my college command line training, the 'starry-eyed' who showed up at msft had me feeling like and 'old codger.' i'm glad that linux/unix is validating the command line paradigm. when i first hit alt-f2 in linux i was overjoyed; multitasking without that accursed gui. andy

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