Re: Meetings are for what?

Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz <spamtrap@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Putting lipstick on a pig doesn't make it a beauty queen. Bringing
Cutler into the windoze design team doesn't make it VMS.

True, but that's both good and bad. There are VMS things I miss in
'doze, and VMS things I'm very glad aren't there.
- Brian

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