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19 Jun
Lying-little-weasels or a simple spelling error?

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From: Peter Langston <psl>
Date: Wed, 19 Jun 96 12:18:49 -0700
To: Fun_People
Subject: Lying-little-weasels or a simple spelling error?

Forwarded-by: Keith Bostic <bostic@bsdi.com>
Subject: Lying-little-weasels only begins to cover it.
Forwarded-by: Sean Eric Fagan <sef@kithrup.com>
From: haynes@cats.ucsc.edu (James H. Haynes)
Subject: Things that make you go, "Huh?"

On the Microsoft web server you'll find a page for Microsoft(R)
BackOffice(TM) that says, in part,

  "Traditionally UNIX was viewed as the platform for client-server solutions.
   However, each UNIX application is tied to a specific hardware platform
   and/or to a particular version of UNIX.  As a result, the customer ends
   up with a proprietary solution..."

[Gee, I've never seen Windoze spelled U-N-I-X before...  -psl]
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