New Microsoft Knowledgebase article

Mayers, P J p.mayers at ic.ac.uk
Wed Jan 12 12:04:06 GMT 2000


I particularly like the bootup screen: "Built on NT technology".

A friend of mine was watching that boot up, and he read it out loud, then
said "It really sounds like 'Built on the smoking ruins of NT technology'"

Laugh? I nearly died...

Cheers,
Phil

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-----Original Message-----
From: Greg Dickie [mailto:greg at discreet.com]
Sent: Wednesday, January 12, 2000 12:01 PM
To: Multiple recipients of list SAMBA-NTDOM
Subject: Re: New Microsoft Knowledgebase article



Windows 2000 should more properly have "Renamed NT Technology"

Greg

On 12-Jan-00 Matthias Wächter wrote:
> On Wed, 12 Jan 2000, Greg Dickie wrote:
> 
>> you are both wrong, it's "Nice Try"
> 
> Still wondering about "NT", which is supposed to stand for "New
> Technology". Windows 2000 Startup-Splash-Screen says: "Built on NT
> Technology", which, if resolved, says: "Built on New Technology
> Technology".
> 
> Hmmm... I like the recursive ones as "GNU's Not Unix" better :-)
> 
> Sehr Wus,
> - Matthias
> 
> -- 
> Wer reitet so spät durch Nacht und Wind?
> - Wos waas I
>
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