{"id":423,"date":"2003-11-26T19:49:46","date_gmt":"2003-11-26T22:49:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/?p=423"},"modified":"2003-11-26T19:49:46","modified_gmt":"2003-11-26T22:49:46","slug":"gems-gems-gems","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/?p=423","title":{"rendered":"Gems, gems, gems"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=dropcap>L<\/span>ooking through Internet archives for nothing particular I ran into this <em>gem<\/em> of a thread: <a href=\"http:\/\/groups.google.com\/groups?hl=en&#038;lr=&#038;ie=UTF-8&#038;oe=UTF-8&#038;c2coff=1&#038;safe=off&#038;threadm=2rtikt%24abn%40wcap.centerline.com&#038;rnum=7&#038;prev=\/groups%3Fq%3Dthreaded%252Bdialogs%26hl%3Den%26lr%3D%26ie%3DUTF-8%26oe%3DUTF-8%26c2coff%3D1%26safe%3Doff%26selm%3D2rtikt%2524abn%2540wcap.centerline.com%26rnum%3D7\">&#8216;Will NT destroy UNIX?&#8217;<\/a> (scroll up to go to the start). 1994, mind you.\n<\/p>\n<p>Interesting (but old and now well known) computer tales about how <a href=\"http:\/\/groups.google.com\/groups?q=g:thl4379676d&#038;dq=&#038;hl=en&#038;lr=&#038;ie=UTF-8&#038;oe=UTF-8&#038;c2coff=1&#038;safe=off&#038;selm=2rqmek%24qkb%40cvsd.cvsd.cv.com\">Digital lost the famous IBM contract<\/a>. Rumours that Novell was <a href=\"http:\/\/groups.google.com\/groups?q=g:thl1570656904d&#038;dq=&#038;hl=en&#038;lr=&#038;ie=UTF-8&#038;oe=UTF-8&#038;c2coff=1&#038;safe=off&#038;selm=2s073t%24kb6%40wcap.centerline.com\">looking at Linux<\/a> (eventually leading to engineers leaving Novell to found Caldera). <a href=\"http:\/\/groups.google.com\/groups?dq=&#038;hl=en&#038;lr=&#038;ie=UTF-8&#038;oe=UTF-8&#038;c2coff=1&#038;safe=off&#038;selm=farrow.770051294%40spot.Colorado.EDU\">Fast state-of-the-art PCs (386s)<\/a>. <a href=\"http:\/\/groups.google.com\/groups?dq=&#038;hl=en&#038;lr=&#038;ie=UTF-8&#038;oe=UTF-8&#038;c2coff=1&#038;safe=off&#038;selm=Cqpq7u.qC5%40hawnews.watson.ibm.com\">trolls<\/a>.\n<\/p>\n<p>The world has changed since then.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Looking through Internet archives for nothing particular I ran into this gem of a thread: &#8216;Will NT destroy UNIX?&#8217; (scroll up to go to the start). 1994, mind you. Interesting (but old and now well known) computer tales about how &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/?p=423\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[13],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/423"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=423"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/423\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=423"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=423"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=423"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}