I suppose Andrew didn't know I was using and providing code to Microsoft
software in the 70's.  Apple didn't go 8080 because they wanted a dedicated
base.

Martin

Andrew Grebneff wrote:
> On Wed, Jan 14, 2009 at 1:54 AM, John Wolff <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>
>> Scuba rebreathers for the masses:
>>
>> http://www.spectrum.ieee.org/jan09/7081
>>
>
>
> "This month,  Swedish scuba manufacturer Poseidon Diving Systems plans
> to introduce an electronically controlled closed-circuit rebreather
> (CCR) called Discovery, which promises to change mainstream sport
> diving the way Microsoft Windows changed computing. "
>
> I assume that this means that Poseidon isn't going to change anything at all.
>
> After all, Microsoft didn't change computing. Apple did. Microsoft
> merely pirated Apple's operating system. And butchered it in doing so.
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