[briansmith]

RE: "Windows 2000 is inferior to NT4SP2"

Windows XP SP2 is basically the minimum version of Windows that you can use and expect a reasonable user experience. That includes the ability to install new (recently released) software. If you insist on old operating systems, then you should expect to run old applicatoins on them.

[rbanffy]

Will there be a 3.0 for VMS?

[gaius]

I hope so, since it's actually 9 years younger than Unix ;-)

[eru]

Robert Metcalf [the inventor of Ethernet] says that if something comes along to replace Ethernet, it will be called “Ethernet”, so therefore Ethernet will never die. Unix has already undergone several such transformations.

-- Ken Thompson

[from http://www.faqs.org/docs/artu/ch01s02.html]