[TUHS] UNIX as literature

Milo Velimirovic milov at uwlax.edu
Fri Jun 9 22:42:08 AEST 2006


On Jun 9, 2006, at 6:42 AM, bgoodheart wrote:

[snip]
> This reminded me of a time not so long ago when I was seated in  
> Starbucks in
> Menlo Park enjoying my Caramel Macchiato Venti and overhearing a  
> heated
> debate between 6 or 7 guys about the GUI vs. command line issue. It  
> seemed
> to start when a couple of guys in one party, seemingly unknown to  
> the other
> party, who were talking about kde, rudely butted in to their  
> conversation.
> Anyway the debate got so verbal that in the end they were all  
> ushered out of
> Starbucks in an effort to keep the peace. How funny it was.

  a 'c | n > k' moment...



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Milo Velimirović
University of Wisconsin - La Crosse
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the U.S. National Medal of Technology (1998) and are fellows of the  
Computer History Museum Online. Dave Cutler hasn't and isn't.
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