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Re: [OT] Dilbert cartoon featurng Linux



On Friday 26 January 2007 04:20, Max Hyre wrote:
>  Sven Arvidsson wrote:
> > On Thu, 2007-01-25 at 11:16 -0700, ChadDavis wrote:
> >> Has anyone seen the Unix dilbert where a crusty old, Unix guy comes up
> >> to dilbert, flips him a dime, and says,"Here kid, go buy yourself a
> >> real computer."
> >
> > http://ozguru.mu.nu/Photos/2005-11-11--Dilbert_Unix.jpg :-)
>
>    Odd, the strip says ``go buy yourself a /better/ computer''.  I would
> have sworn a might oath that the original said ``real computer'', as
> ChadDavis says.  That's how Neil Stephenson quotes it in ``In the
> Beginning was the Command Line''[1], and I think it's better that way.

I agree...I thought it was "real computer."  Oh no! Revisionist comic history. 
EVERYBODY PAAAAAAANIIIIIIC!

j

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