Jon Stewart on 12 Aug 2001 20:09:39 -0000


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Re: hosers-talk: mo-crappa


> > What OS do you think I'm running?
> 
> How the fuck should I know? You could be running Windows (3.1|95|98|2000|ME|X
> P), (Net|Free|Open)BSD, Linux, BeOS, OS/2 (heh) perhaps some others.


<sigh> It's polite etiquette, Joel, to not make a geek explicitly admit 
he's running Windows 95. Reticence confirms the assumption.


> Based on my experience with the Linux version, if the Windows one sucks it mi
> ght be that the code isn't well-optimized for Windows yet. Or perhaps there's
>  a loop in the Windows kernel that checks for competing products and slows th
> em down. :)


I would not be surprised, not one bit. IE tries to hijack everything it 
can.


Jon
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