[ale] Linux job

Scott Castaline hscast at charter.net
Wed Mar 29 19:23:38 EST 2006


Geoffrey wrote:
> Christopher Fowler wrote:
>   
>> Then again time-sharing could have multiple definitions.  So you could
>> say UNIX and Windows are time-sharing systems.
>>     
>
> The term, time-sharing, came out, as another poster put it, when slices 
> of time were purchased from large main frame boxes.
>
> Unix brought about the term multiprocessing.
>
> Windows brought about the terms: reboot, crash, locked up, going postal.
>
> Well I might be wrong about that last Windows term...
>
>   
Uhh u forgot on Mickey$oft one: Blue Screen of Death!!! (with title 
soundtrack of JAWS playing in background).



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