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Wired's 2004 Vaporware Awards

Posted by michael on from the real-soon-now dept.

l3pYr writes "Based on user submissions, Wired Magazine has posted its 2004 Vaporware Awards. Duke Nukem Forever has garnered the 'Lifetime Achievement Award,' so it doesn't - officially - make the list. Some of the lucky winners this year are: Alienware, Valve, Microsoft, Apple and TiVo."

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  1. Re:My favorite piece of vaporware is GNU/HURD by uebermts · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Well, HURD is about to reach V1.0 ... in the meantime, Linus wrote some other OS:

    ===
    From: torva...@klaava.Helsinki.FI (Linus Benedict Torvalds)
    Date: 5 Oct 91 05:41:06 GMT
    Subject: Free minix-like kernel sources for 386-AT

    [...]
    I can (well, almost) hear you asking yourselves "why?". Hurd will be
    out in a year (or two, or next month, who knows), and I've already got
    minix.
    [...]
    ===

    http://groups-beta.google.com/group/comp.os.mini x/ msg/2194d253268b0a1b