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Re: *** HUGE NEWS ABOUT WINDOWS 95 ***

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From: kspe... Kevin Speichts
Date: Sat, 08 Jul 1995 00:00
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In article <DBC1y...@undergrad.math.uwaterloo.ca> rjva...@cantor.math.uwaterloo.ca (Rob Vanden Heuvel) writes:

>   After hearing this, it seems to me as though nobody in their right mind would
>"upgrade" to Windows 95.  So the alternatives are NT and OS/2.  Seeing as NT
>isn't really viable for the home user (unless you have a massively powerful
>system) and has such compatibility problems, OS/2 is the clear choice of the
>future.

Hah! hah, hah!.   What a joke, OS/2 runs doom in a DOS box with 4Mb of RAM, 
right!!!!    OS/2 needs as much hardware behind it as NT any day.   NT, with 
'95's shell, it's out in beta, will kick OS/2's butt.   Period.

> Besides, a failure of Windows 95 (which is actually looking quite
>possible if people get informed in time) would mean that Microsoft would be
>dead in the water in the OS arena.  The OS/2 market will boom if people have
>any sense!

Yeah, and the world will end tomorrow!   Explain why OS/2 isn't shipping with 
the PowerPC and NT is.    Hah, hah, thanks I needed a good laugh.   ;) 

>Rob (in dreamland) Vanden Heuvel



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Kevin Speichts
Beaverbank Nova Scotia
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From: kspe...@fox.nstn.ns.ca (Kevin Speichts)
Subject: Re: *** HUGE NEWS ABOUT WINDOWS 95 ***
Date: 1995/07/08
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