Re: NT shuts out third-party font packages

[Wandered Inn <esoteric@denali.atlnet.com>]

Brett Glass wrote:
> 
> At 01:20 PM 12/21/98 +0000, Wandered Inn wrote:
> 
> >A new joke for you, a friend of mine dropped me an email referring to
> >Win 2000 as Win 2k, I told him that that was probably a more reasonable
> >name for it, because that's when all the bugs will be worked out,
> >2024...  I've used the same reference to the Y2K bug....
> 
> Uh, 2K would be 2048.

Yeah, you're not the only one that caught that one.  Not enough coffee. 
Interesting since I had just finished spouting power of 2 values to my
wife, in reference to a disk space question...

> 
> In any event, the abbreviation "Y2K" is itself an example of why we'll
> have a problem. In these days of $300 14 GB hard drives, people will
> still sell their souls rather than write a few extra characters.
> 
> --Brett

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Until later: Geoffrey		esoteric@denali.atlnet.com

You mean you paid MONEY for Service Pack '98????