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Opinion: High-Performance Nonsense

Oct 13, 2008, 15:45 (0 Talkback[s])
(Other stories by Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols)

"OK, put your mice down. If you answered Linux, give yourself 10 points; Solaris, 9 points; OpenVMS, 8 points; Windows -- pardon me, what are you doing in this class? Remedial IT is down the hall. Just listen for the chorus of "Are you sure your PC's power cord is plugged into the wall socket?" You can't miss it."

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