Re: Win95: Been there, done that.

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From: hunt... Charles Randolph Hunter
Date: Mon, 15 May 1995 00:00

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kid...@cs.purdue.edu (Eric "the" Kidder) writes:

>In article <3p5cos$t...@msunews.cl.msu.edu>
>           duff...@studentd.msu.edu "Kerry Anne Duff" writes:

>> and that it's interface is an OS/2 rip-off and that it is STILL based on DOS
>I'm not sure, but wasn't Windows developed first, and even Macintosh before
>that?
And XEROX before that. Remember who invented the mouse.

>> protection and multitasking....and you have to go into Single Application
>> Mode to run most cool DOS games(as well as many cool programs like Autocad12).
>Ultima IX = Win95 only

>   Those of you who dont need multitasking and stability can stay with Win3.1 
>> and later move to Win95. Those of us who USE our computers will be running 
>> OS/2 or NT.
>And those of us who will be working for the government (at least military)
>will be using Win95.

		ahh... yes. I'm sorry. I just had to comment here,
especially since Eric is on the same campus as I am. 8-)
Are you saying that our *government* is going to waste our money???
Now that *is* news! ;-)

			Warp be with you,


				Charles Hunter


>Eric Kidder               | "But Master, is the wind not made for blowing?
>                          | Is the bird not made for flying?  Is your scrotum
>finger                    | not made for kicking?" -- Beavis
>kid...@lab8.cs.purdue.edu | Kidder on the web:
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From: hunt...@cs.purdue.edu (Charles Randolph Hunter)
Subject: Re: Win95: Been there, done that.
Date: 1995/05/15
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