Re: [Nolug] Guess they haven't heard of *nix

From: Ron Johnson <ron.l.johnson_at_cox.net>
Date: 10 Mar 2003 06:47:42 -0600
Message-Id: <1047300462.11506.22.camel@haggis>

On Sun, 2003-03-09 at 20:32, Charles wrote:
> This is a screen capture of the St. Charles Parish Information Channel
> broadcast this evening.
> Guess they haven't heard of Linux yet?????

>From the lack of a register dump, it doesn't even look like they are
using NT4|5.

I bet, though, that there's some specialized Win-only app that they
"need".

Humorous note about Cox Jefferson and how companies sometimes just keep
on using unexpected technology: back, oh, ~10 years ago, I surfed to
channel 4 (scrolling TV listings, even before TV Guide took over), and
saw an AmigaDOS error screen! Video has always been a strength of the
Amiga, so I wasn't super surprised...

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