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Posted: Jan. 13 2006,16:00 QUOTE
Quote (cbagger01 @ Jan. 12 2006,13:22)
You used OS9?

6809 or 680xx version?

Dunno what version, but it was on an older Imac... anyway, the monitor high-voltage power section died (blowing sparks around to the grounded parts of it's casing) while working with it (which makes the same sound as the harddisk of the thing)
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Posted: Jan. 14 2006,04:16 QUOTE
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Why do so many people quote the word "got" when used in a sentence such as "I finally got it"?  It only serves to distract the reader and make him wonder what the quotes are for.  If you don't quote the present tense (e.g. "Do you get what I'm saying?") it's silly to quote the past tense of the same word.

That said....the "Linux is not Windows" article is perhaps the most accurate description of The Problem that I've ever read.

http://owl.english.purdue.edu/handouts/grammar/g_overvw.html

Quotation Marks " "

Use quotation marks . . .
in the following situations:


for example:

to enclose direct quotations. Note that commas and periods go inside the closing quotation mark in conventional American usage; colons and semicolons go outside; and placement of question and exclamation marks depends on the situation (see our quotation marks document).


He asked, "Will you be there?" "Yes," I answered, "I'll look for you in the foyer."

to indicate words used ironically, with reservations, or in some unusual way; but don't overuse quotation marks in this sense, or they will lose their impact.


History is stained with blood spilled in the name of "civilization."

I sucked at english...and grammar...and all that crap...but why do you realy care...are you "my" english teacher???

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Posted: Jan. 14 2006,23:42 QUOTE
Not that I don't love flamewars over improper usage of the English language, but let's try to keep this thread on topic--Windows Newbies that want Linux, and in this specific case, DSL, to behave exactly like Windows should be castrated, shot, stabbed, rabbit-punched, have molten lead poured into their eyes, drawn and quartered and strung up.

Oh yeah, and all of that compassionate hand-holding and touchy-feely, repetitive explanations of answers that they are too lazy to look up for themselves.

I should've add the links to ESR's How to Ask Questions the Smart Way, let me do that now:

How To Ask Questions The Smart Way

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Posted: Jan. 16 2006,05:51 QUOTE
The original OS9 was written for the 8-bit Motorola 6809 processor, such as the original Radio Shaft TRS-80 Color Computer and Color Computer 2

Back in the Mid 1980's I was able to boot OS9 on my Color Computer 2

It was difficult to do much with the OS because I only has a single-sided 35-track floppy drive for disk storage and the OS itself took up most of the space on the disk.

But I was able to create an additional serial text console and was able to have a friend log in via the RS-232 port and a 300 baud modem.

So yes, it was possible to set up a UNIX-like multiuser system using a Color Computer.

Try that with your neighbor's Commodore 64 :)
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Posted: Jan. 17 2006,01:02 QUOTE
Quote (Grim @ Jan. 14 2006,18:42)
Not that I don't love flamewars over improper usage of the English language, but let's try to keep this thread on topic--Windows Newbies that want Linux, and in this specific case, DSL, to behave exactly like Windows should be castrated, shot, stabbed, rabbit-punched, have molten lead poured into their eyes, drawn and quartered and strung up.

Oh yeah, and all of that compassionate hand-holding and touchy-feely, repetitive explanations of answers that they are too lazy to look up for themselves.

I should've add the links to ESR's How to Ask Questions the Smart Way, let me do that now:

How To Ask Questions The Smart Way

This is why I like you man...

You tell it how it is

P.S. mikshaw neener neener neener!

heh

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