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To: Justin Banks who wrote (17399)2/11/1998 11:05:00 PM
From: Daniel Schuh  Respond to of 24154
 
Justin, I will go out on a limb here and answer for Norm, I'm sure his reply was ironic, the Gatesian use of "random" being a dead givaway. There was some news from the last few days I never got around to posting, about Hydra/Citrix/ICA/Winterm/whatever supposedly being announced April 13, did it ever hit beta? I got to dig through the archives sometime, I think that it'll be very close to a year after Bill's "one true NC" announcement. Microsoft is supposed to be confused about how to price the thing without messing up the old business plan. Shades of the IBM of years past, if you know how they operated.

Of course, this is all somewhat more than 10 years after X was pretty mature and stable, but that would have never, ever, ever fit in with the old business plan. Sheesh. Come to think of it, it's about 10 years after Steve Job's Next launch, with his own cut on a windowing system, Display Postscript- is that still supposed to be in Rhapsody?

Cheers, Dan.



To: Justin Banks who wrote (17399)2/12/1998 12:34:00 AM
From: nommedeguerre  Respond to of 24154
 
Justin,

>>General protocols -- that is the most random thing I have ever heard...

>I can't tell whether I misspoke, you're joking, or you don't agree with me. Which?

It was a Bill joke but since Bill isn't funny neither could the joke be. Now if it had been a Ballmer joke...

Cheers,

Norm