On Wed, Jun 12, 2002 at 03:40:22PM +0100, Lee wrote:
>
> Why is it the microsoft are just so bad at doing anything these days,
> first they steal the tcpip stack from bsd, then mung it up, I'm suprised
> they have not released thier own 'microsoft' tcpip with thier own
> specfial extensions, then they really would own the networking world,
> and besides why break a habit of a life time.
Um, this has been seriously suggested in the past. The general idea is
that Microsoft would embed a propretry TCP/IP stack, which is kinda a
new, non-compatible TCP/IP in all versions of windows, and then make
sure that a few routers, switches, network cards etc can cope with it...
they turn it on...
Now you have to use a MicroSoft OS to be able to access the 'net etc.
I've read a couple of suggestions along these lines. Can't actually see
it happening thank god!
> YMMV (??????) what?
Your mileage may vary.
$> apt-get install dict
$> dict YMMV
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (09 FEB 02) [foldoc]:
YMMV
{Your mileage may vary}
Matthew
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