In <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, on 01/16/2007
at 11:10 PM, Bill Seubert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said:
>My pet peeve is the tendancy of some of the unwashed masses to refer
>to Wintel and/or *IX systems as "open systems" versus "mainframes."
>Seems they are ignorant of the support of the myriad of open
>standards that the mainframe provides.
To say nothing of the standards that m$ doesn't support. The junk from
Redmond is the least open in the industry.
--
Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz, SysProg and JOAT
ISO position; see <http://patriot.net/~shmuel/resume/brief.html>
We don't care. We don't have to care, we're Congress.
(S877: The Shut up and Eat Your spam act of 2003)
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