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        <title><![CDATA[RE: If you could go back in time, how would you change IT?]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[With tongue-firmly-in-cheek, and gun in hand I would go back to the US Patent Office on the day A. G. Bell and I. Grey filed patent applications, wait for them to appear, and &quot;BANG!&quot;, save the world from the tyranny known as &quot;The Telephone&quot;.No nagging bells ringing or dread-awful ring-tones! Nobody interrupting dinner to sell me the latest whatever, or ask me to help save the endangered dandy lion. Nobody driving one-handed, with a cellphone jammed under their chin, or giving me the privilege of hearing their half of the description of last night's tryst at the local alcohol corral.Yes!! THAT's what I would do!!]]></description>
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        <dc:creator><![CDATA[MCForensic@...]]></dc:creator>
        <pubDate>Thu, 10 Jul 2008 16:27:24 -0700</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[Gary Kildall]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[Thanks for the correction. I rememberedhis untimely death as being closer in time to the IBM DOS deal.]]></description>
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        <dc:creator><![CDATA[harobroys@...]]></dc:creator>
        <pubDate>Wed, 09 Jul 2008 06:23:08 -0700</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[RE: If you could go back in time, how would you change IT?]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[I would push to make sure that year fields were 4 digits from the start so there wouldn't have been a Y2K problem resulting in off source folks getting involved in IT with the result that IT jobs didn't end up going away from the USA.]]></description>
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        <dc:creator><![CDATA[clittle@...]]></dc:creator>
        <pubDate>Tue, 08 Jul 2008 19:12:20 -0700</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[That's a good one.]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[It would be interesting to see what would have happened if MS hadn't had internal conflicts preventing their full support of OS/2.]]></description>
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        <dc:creator><![CDATA[CharlieSpencer_Palmetto]]></dc:creator>
        <pubDate>Tue, 08 Jul 2008 13:11:25 -0700</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[Steven Tyler called.]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sNzEQ8hG1zA]]></description>
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        <dc:creator><![CDATA[CharlieSpencer_Palmetto]]></dc:creator>
        <pubDate>Tue, 08 Jul 2008 13:07:50 -0700</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[My post is completely on topic]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[The subject is what one would like to see changed in IT.  One change I'd like to see off-topic posts be required to indicate such in their title.  How is that off-topic?  It's about IT (web discussions), it's a change I'd like to see.]]></description>
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        <dc:creator><![CDATA[CharlieSpencer_Palmetto]]></dc:creator>
        <pubDate>Tue, 08 Jul 2008 13:05:23 -0700</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[Bad data]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[Gary Kildall died in 1994, a decade after the ibm-dos debacle.]]></description>
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        <dc:creator><![CDATA[NickNielsen]]></dc:creator>
        <pubDate>Tue, 08 Jul 2008 12:37:50 -0700</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[RE: If you could go back in time, how would you change IT?]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[I would make a fortune writing 8kB cartridge software for the Texas Instruments TI-99/4A that could be sold at $ 100 a pop!Then I would go all out to ensure that the awful IBM-PC architecture was not the one to prevail.  There were so many other great CPUs out there - did we really need CP/M compatibility?  The 8088 sucked - we could have settled on the Motorola 68000 or the Texas Instruments TMS9900 CPUs, not that backward-semi-compatible dinosaur that is the Intel 8086!]]></description>
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        <dc:creator><![CDATA[briantw]]></dc:creator>
        <pubDate>Tue, 08 Jul 2008 03:47:40 -0700</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[What If]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[What if Gary Kildall had lived? and sued Bill for stealing CP/M-86. Gary died mysteriously  right after bill did the ibm - dos deal.]]></description>
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        <dc:creator><![CDATA[harobroys@...]]></dc:creator>
        <pubDate>Tue, 08 Jul 2008 03:16:07 -0700</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[After very careful consideration]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[I think I would do what I could to ensure that Digital Research and IBM were able to reach an agreement making CP/M-86 the original operating system for the IBM PC.]]></description>
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        <dc:creator><![CDATA[NickNielsen]]></dc:creator>
        <pubDate>Mon, 07 Jul 2008 20:02:22 -0700</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[My impression of Paramus]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[was achieved by spending a lot of time on Greyhound buses going into and out of New York.  Since, at that time, you couldn't go north out of NYC without going through Paramus, I spent a lot of miles on 17 between the tunnel and the Thruway.  I soon came to think Paramus was 5 or 6 miles long and the width of the decaying/boarded-up properties on either side of 17.  Not necessarily dangerous, but definitely not a lot there.  (I was, of course, wrong, but I was also young!)I know Newark only by reputation, all of it bad.]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Mon, 07 Jul 2008 19:56:26 -0700</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[All good ones]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[I like all three of those. J.Ja]]></description>
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        <dc:creator><![CDATA[Justin James]]></dc:creator>
        <pubDate>Mon, 07 Jul 2008 19:33:25 -0700</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[I agree to an extent]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[I agree that the monopolies have been bad in many ways, but to be honest, the standardization and portability of skills has been a good thing, I think. If you can configure a Cisco router, you can be a network engineer just about anywhere, and getting support is easy. Ditto for troubleshooting (or even picking out) hardware. And it makes sense to learn one OS and application suite rather than a new one every time you change jobs or buy a new computer at home. So I can see both sides of it.J.Ja]]></description>
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        <dc:creator><![CDATA[Justin James]]></dc:creator>
        <pubDate>Mon, 07 Jul 2008 19:31:38 -0700</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[If Steve &amp; Linus took over the world...]]></title>
        <link><![CDATA[http://www.techrepublic.com/forum/discussions/102-268041-2541080]]></link>
        <description><![CDATA[Chubby guy: Hi, I'm a Linux machine.Skinny guy: And I'm a Mac.Wacky hijinks ensue. J.Ja]]></description>
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        <dc:creator><![CDATA[Justin James]]></dc:creator>
        <pubDate>Mon, 07 Jul 2008 19:29:09 -0700</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[SPAM...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[... is how the topic that came up in the first place... I have fantasized in the past that the SMTP protocol had stronger authentication/validation baked into it from Day 1, so that SPAM would not be a problem. J.Ja]]></description>
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        <dc:creator><![CDATA[Justin James]]></dc:creator>
        <pubDate>Mon, 07 Jul 2008 19:26:27 -0700</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[Paramus and Newark...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[... are both places that did not scare the bejebus out of me. Camden does. And I am not easily scared of neighborhoods. My first day in New Brunswick, I walked into a &quot;domicile for the selling and ingestion of illicit substances&quot; to ask for directions for crying out loud. But yeah, Camden qualifies as a &quot;scary place&quot; in my book.J.Ja]]></description>
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        <dc:creator><![CDATA[Justin James]]></dc:creator>
        <pubDate>Mon, 07 Jul 2008 19:25:04 -0700</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[3 possible choices (most important to least)]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[First Choice: Open up Apple like the early PC'sIf Apple had been &quot;open&quot; like the early PC's, life would be a whole lot different.  I can remember seeing information (relating to DOS) on how to tweak everything, write code for it from many sources, things like that.  I even remember being able to buy prototyping boards that could plug into the 8 bit (or 16 bit) bus on PC's so that you could experiment with any kind of hardware that you could conceive.  Second Choice: Novell doing something with DR-DOS, UNIX, and networking.Everything was lined up in 1 company to produce what would have been the best running environment under 1 roof, including a reputable name.  With a little backing, it could have been 1 hell of a great system.Third Choice: DEC buying Apple.  When DEC was still strong, had the money, and read the writing on the wall, there were serious discussions about DEC purchasing Apple.  Just think what might have come out of that union.]]></description>
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        <dc:creator><![CDATA[DEK46656]]></dc:creator>
        <pubDate>Mon, 07 Jul 2008 18:40:11 -0700</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[OS/2, MS, and IBM]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[Actually, at one point, IBM had contracted with MS to develop OS/2. However, this was a huge conflict of interest and MS was already furiously working on NT at the time, so why would they devote much time to a product which would compete with theirs?When asked why OS/2 development was so slow, they told IBM that that they had developers working on it night and day.So, while they had teams of programmers all working feverishly on NT, they hired two part-time college interns and, you guessed it, one worked on OS/2 at night and the other put in a few hours during the day.Eventually IBM got wise and pulled their product back!Dave]]></description>
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        <dc:creator><![CDATA[davionics@...]]></dc:creator>
        <pubDate>Mon, 07 Jul 2008 13:50:04 -0700</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[ActiveX]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[Better yet...First, banish the existence of ActiveX.Secondly, that email would have been developed in a more secure way to prevent the emergence of SPAM in the first place.My $0.02]]></description>
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        <dc:creator><![CDATA[martian@...]]></dc:creator>
        <pubDate>Mon, 07 Jul 2008 12:59:52 -0700</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[OS/2]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[When I was first starting off with field work in IT, I would install stock purchase systems for a myriad of clients.  We offered two platforms, OS/2, or NT. I'd say that the NT base had 60% sales share, and OS/2 40%.About 1/3 of the people that chose the NT platform later switched to OS/2 due to performance issues.  No one from OS/2 ever switched to the NT platform in the 2+ years I was with the firm.]]></description>
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        <dc:creator><![CDATA[NotSoChiGuy]]></dc:creator>
        <pubDate>Mon, 07 Jul 2008 11:55:21 -0700</pubDate>
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