Re: [OT] British vs. American English (was Re: Wow, Evolution left me with eggs in my face)
On Sun, 2011-10-02 at 08:43 -0400, Stephen Powell wrote:
> On Sun, 02 Oct 2011 05:56:57 -0400 (EDT), Ralf Mardorf wrote:
> >
> > I'm not sure what M$ does mean ;), but I'm sure "Winzigweich" is the
> > same as M$ ;).
>
> M$ means Microsoft. Microsoft is often abbreviated as MS, such as in
> the term "MS-DOS". You can probably guess why the $ is sometimes
> substituted for the S.
I was kidding :), since I'm a dino I know "MS-DOS", on my Atari ST 80286
hardware emulater I used "DR-DOS" instead of the M$ thingy.
- Ralf
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