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    cal 9 1752 <enter>

    I just saw this picture on digg.com and it's true. Open a terminal in Linux, and type: cal 9 1752 <enter>

    I investigated, and it is true, those days were missing in the British Empire, because that is when they adjusted the 11 extra days.

    http://i.imgur.com/xn621.png

    Cool! Good programming by the cal guys.

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    Interestingly Winblows won't let you go back past 1980...
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    Hee, hee. They assume the world began when MS started selling DOS?

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    Quote Originally Posted by irlandes View Post
    Hee, hee. They assume the world began when MS started selling DOS?
    i think i read an article that kinda put the blame on ibm for allowing m$ to take advantage on the holes in the written contract when ibm hired m$ to write a dos software for their ibm pcs...

    m$ just saw the oppurtunity to market dos as another version that had m$ name stamped over it..
    Isn't it strange the onset of overheating will result in freezing?

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    i think i read an article that kinda put the blame on ibm for allowing m$ to take advantage on the holes in the written contract when ibm hired m$ to write a dos software for their ibm pcs...
    I'm not trying to start anything here at all, MS did not write anything for ibm, they bought the dos os from a man named Tim Patterson for like $5000.00, the os was called Q-DOS. Ms just changed the name to MS-DOS and made billions. Also the Windows program was another program that was not theirs. Windows was a program that came from the company Xerox. Ya gotta hand it to Mr. Gates and his co. tho he made billions off of others ideas.

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    Wasn't it QD-DOS as in Quick and Dirty DOS? That's the way I remember it but I could be wrong.
    Last edited by klackenfus; 01-28-2010 at 02:39 PM.
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    No it was QDOS Quick and Dirty Operating System
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    interesting. what about copyright issues then? wouldn't have m$ infringed on copyright laws?

    actually i read the above in an ebook on hardware, guess the author was on m$ payroll
    Isn't it strange the onset of overheating will result in freezing?

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