Re: Win95 a TRUE OS? Help a newbie!

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From: aur... Aurora
Date: Tue, 25 Jul 1995 00:00

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dehum...@telepac.pt (Pedro Timoteo) wrote:

>:>>A long time ago, Micro$oft had a problem: Everyone and their dog hated
>:>>M$-DOG.  Billy the Gates feared that if they didn't do something soon, they
>:>>would lose a lot of money to IBM with its soon to be released OS/2.  Since
>:>>getting rid of M$-DOS would scare away a lot of users (and their pocket
>:>>books), they decided to just hide M$-DOG instead---underneath Windoze.
>:>>Windoze95 is the latest (bug-ridden) incarnation of this costume.  Except
>:>>this time M$-DOG is hidden better.
>:>
>:>Hey, the guy asked for unbiased opinions, so shut up. These are the
>:>kind of replies that make those OS/2  vs W95B so irritating.

>Why, for being true?

No, for beeing the unfounded bullshit it is.

Now, I'm not saying there might not be a point of truth here, but this
kind off reply is just unfounded repeating of what they heard other
ppl say

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From: aur...@worldaccess.nl (Aurora)
Subject: Re: Win95 a TRUE OS? Help a newbie!
Date: 1995/07/25
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