AHHhhh Vaporware... I have many memories of my time with IBM and waiting for
all those promised OS/2 applications. (text book study in vaporware)
Many PS/1 machines had a pleathora of undocumented "features" Like for
instance... IBM Token Ring adapters won't work in your 486 PS/1. Much to the
surprise and merryment of many an administrator :)
On Tue, 30 Nov 1999, you wrote:
> On Mon, 29 Nov 1999, Sergio Korlowsky wrote:
> > Check this one... hehe
> >
> > Microsoft has released a version upgrade that eliminates a vulnerability in
> > Microsoft(r) Internet Explorer 5. "A vulnerability in an optional component"
> > could allow a malicious user to gain additional privileges on a Windows NT
> > machine that allowed him or her to create or change files.
> >
> > ----------------------------------------------------------
> >
> > How about that... a 'vulnerability is an "optional" component...
> >
> > soon they are going to claim that a "Vulnerability" is an 'additional Feature'
> >
> > in Winsucks products! he he.. Sorry I couldn't resist! ;-)
>
> You guys should have been around in the late 70's and early
> 80's. Those were the heyday of CP/M, Altairs and lots of
> S-100 computers....14" drives....and 64K memory was a rich
> man's toy.
>
> Back then, there were some pretty zany expressions out there.
> Lets take a Quiz:
>
> 1. "That's not a bug, that's a FEATURE!"
>
> 2. The dBASE-II ad with the rule bilge pump. "Some
> databases...well...suck."
>
> 3. "Vaporware" was coined.
>
> 4. Jerry Pournelle was ranting about some new software
> or hardware product that was going to be released
> "Real_Soon_Now! tm" It WAS trademarked, and is now in
> the lexicon as RSN....in the same context as Vaporware.
>
> 5. The IBM PC at 4.77 mHz was soundly beat in computing
> speed by an Altair or any 2 mHz Z-80. A good selling
> point is that it came with TWO 160K double sided floppy
> drives! You could buy the XT with an incredible 5 MB
> hard drive, but nobody could figure out what you would
> need that vast amount of storage for....!
>
> 6. "The bill is $1,000. $5 for the time it took to tap
> it with the screwdriver handle....and $995 for knowing
> WHERE to tap it." IBM circa 7040/7044 computers in 1960's.
>
> Of course, when Microsoft came strong on the scene in
> 1992....all rules were cast aside. ANYTHING goes now.
> we have: "Freedom to Innovate" "Microsoft did not do
> anything wrong because it is the top selling and most
> wanted operating system...". "I didn't say that....oh,
> this email? I don't remember it...".
>
>
>
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