Getting Hung Up on the Apple-Microsoft War

[Rick Sivernell]

On Thu, 10 Aug 2006 13:15:36 -0700
Tony Alfrey <tonyalfrey at earthlink.net> wrote:

> Net Llama! wrote:
> > Quote of the day, in the NYTimes:
> > "... the market-share figures includes sales of computers to corporations, 
> > which buy hundreds of PC's at a time. And the corporate world long ago 
> > standardized on Windows. It makes no difference how superior Mac OS X or 
> > Linux may be; the world's I.T. staffs will switch their entire companies 
> > away from Windows the day Rush Limbaugh votes for Hillary Clinton.
> 
> <snip>
> 
> Many moons ago (about 200 to be exact) when I worked for TRW and PCs 
> were several orders of magnitude worse than now, and the first Macs had 
> just come out, literally every scientist in the building demanded a Mac. 
>   So they ended up with a Mac and a PC on their desk (with a VAX here 
> and there).  So they had sufficient pull at that time to demand the 
> tools that they wanted to use.  But these sorts of places are few and 
> far between.  Recently I was told that I was not allowed to put a Linux 
> partition on a PC at a place for which I was a consultant.  But the IT 
> guy was too dumb to know that Linux was on the box anyway.  He just 
> couldn't figure out why the disk "seemed" to be smaller than it was 
> supposed to be.
> 

Now that is funny, the bad part is that it is true. Long ago I worked at General
Dynamics in Fort Worth Texas. Some friends of mine and I meet this small group of
people from another company. This group was a special IT tech group for a elite
department. They hired a new guy, who was extremely light in IT and computers.
The lead was a lady and she gave her a new floppy disk to play with in learning
how Dos works. One day we were sitting there talking and he walked up and chimed
in. His lead asked him why he was tearing up the floppy disk cover, not the
sleeve. He informed us that it was OK, he filled the disk with data and it was
not worth anything now.

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Rick Sivernell
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