[blobbers]

Let's bring back those DOS 4.0 period sayings.

Does this mean if you happen to be talking to BillG you could talk about brain damaged programs and he'd nod appreciatively?

[mormegil]

Oh, you mean like it's some period saying? I'm using it normally. But then again, it's not like I'm keeping my finger on the pulse of the current trends...

See also http://catb.org/jargon/html/B/brain-damaged.html

[asveikau]

Somehow seeing the phrases "brain damaged" and "DOS 4.0 period" makes me think...

Bill Cosby's "Brain Damage" bit, from the album "Himself": 1982

DOS 4.0: 1988

Those comments also could have also sat in the tree for a few years.

[glhaynes]

It was BillG who famously called the 286 "brain damaged" after all.

EDIT: Upon doing a web search, actually it looks like it was "brain dead".

[wglb]

He went the only one. Most of us did.