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To: Terry Maynard who wrote (20500)3/1/1998 8:56:00 AM
From: Paul Fiondella   of 42771
 
Bill Gates gift to the world (a hacker's paradise)

So when I put an AMD K6-233 into one of my computers, I decided to upgrade the OS to Windows NT. I turned on the performance monitor and had the usual 5% CPU utilization until I moved a window containing a chart around the screen and then the monster awoke. Faster and faster I moved the window around with the mouse...69%...84%...93%. I didn't crash! I didn't crash! Vision of Bill Gates racing down the road at 120MPH in his Porsche, slowing down and safely exiting the highway. NT engineered to run a high speed machine. I'm finally safely liberated from that dog Win95 and its fatal exception errors.

I dial up the Internet using my USR modem. I come here to SI. In the middle of reading a post and scrolling with a mouse, the most harmless and innocent of activities, suddenly the system does a core dump leaving me with hexadecimal numbers painted over a blue screen. Completely locked. I do it again, dial up etc. etc. Same result. Then again same result. Then I notice it is raining outside. Rain that mysterious substance that did in the Triffids in War of the Worlds.

You see when it rains and I'm using WIndows NT, I have to switch dial-up nodes to one closer to me. Otherwise some handshaking routine for handling the COM port in NT gets out of synchronization because there are too many error correcting transmissions going back and forth with the modem and the dial-up node. The OS sort of gets lost in some loop waiting, loses patience and eventually overwrites its stack.

Or at least that's how I have to explain it too myself because as you know MIcrosoft doesn't acknowledge any bugs in its operating system, only user errors.

Does anyone understand any of this? Those poor judges that can't tell the difference between an application and an OS? Do they really think that Gates will let them die peacefully in their old age without being hooked up to a machine running a Microsoft OS. Just picture yourself the day after the heart attack, you are recovering in the hospital and you discover that the machine that you are hooked up to monitoring your heart rate and pumping out medication is running Windows CE.

Its nice to know that Gates has made his OS THE OS and I can look forward for the rest of my life to having everything I own eventually having a Microsoft bug in it.

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Daddy, daddy why does the telephone ring every time it rains. Its because Bill Gates is in heaven dear and only he understands the hack that would fix it.
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