From: Mike Batchelor [mailto:mikebat@tmcs.net] Sent: Monday, July 02, 2001 11:25 AM

Roeland Meyer:

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...As much as I hate to say it, I almost agree with MSFT here. That said, Novell stated, decades ago, that MSFT never could understand network security. At the time, I agreed with Novell.

"Decades ago" implies more than one decade ago, which puts this purported statement by Novell sometime prior to 1981. That was a very prescient statement, in light of the fact that networking on Microsoft's then-current OS (DOS 1.0) had not been developed yet.

So we know that I can't type...duh! Besides, I was running a Davong Multilink arcnet at the time, before Novell took it over (when Davong turned turtle). We were eagerly awaiting the first IBM XT. Also, I was running PCDOS v2.11 about then. Network by Davong and disk drives by Tallgrass. We also had a PDP11/35 w/ RSX-11M, for POS development (TEC America, Torrance). I guess that places the time at about 1982... six (6) MONTHS short of two decades. Please excuse me for not being suitably anal-retentive. Advanced senility is hell on the old RAM isn't it?