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Re: Windows 95 & Microsoft (vs OS/2?) : long but IMHO good! :-)

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From: ter... Terje A. Bergesen
Date: Tue, 11 Jul 1995 00:00
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In article <3ttt34$a...@itsmail1.hamilton.edu>,
jma...@itsmail1.hamilton.edu (Joseph T. Malloy) wrote:

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> Sigh. I explained this already.  Where did the rumor start about the
> Plus! pack being a bug fix?  (Ah, my dear Terje, what was it some ostwo
> teamster was saying about the extraordinary civility of the ostwo poster?)

It is VERY difficult to be polite with people like yourself. Becides - I don't
concider my selfe an OS/2 advocate. I concider my self an advocate of
quality. I make a living of computers, and would like my work to be as
fun as possible. OS/2 is nice to work with, so I advocate that, NT is
nice to work with (now that resource req's have come down) so I advocate
that. I like UNIX a lot, and advocate LINUX and AIX in the appropriate
fora.

> Let's assume it *will* contain bug fixes: are you of the opinion that
> Microsoft will *not* release the fixes separately?   If they do release
> the bug fixes separately (a likely occurrence), what's so bad about the
> Plus! pack containing them as well? 

Well, here we are getting somewhere. I stated in another post that it
would be plain stupid of MS NOT to include bugfixes - if they exist -
in the plus pack. This thread is about wether the plus pack is an upgrade/
bug fix or not. I believe it is. It will bring Win95 closer to it original
goals, but not by much. It will probably - if MS have them ready by then -
contain bug fixes.

> My point has been that MS is almost surely not going to force you to buy
> the Plus! pack just to get the fixes.  They, themselves, advertise the
> Plus! pack for 486 and higher processor machines with at least 8 MB ram;
> what about all the 386s in the world?

No, but MS advocates have been denying very hard that the plus pack will
be a bug fix... So...


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From: ter...@vestnett.no (Terje A. Bergesen)
Subject: Re: Windows 95 & Microsoft (vs OS/2?) : long but IMHO good! :-)
Date: 1995/07/11
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