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Re: Win95 and games: good news...

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From: glu... Gary Lucero
Date: Tue, 18 Apr 1995 00:00
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I don't think this post (the original) was really a major flame, but is there
anyway we can get past this advocacy 'stuff' and deal with eachother like
adults? Some like OS/2, some like Windows 95, others like Linux, whatever,
but does it matter at all? Should one OS win over another, or should we
as users (and consumers) win by getting the very best technology we possbily
can?

All I know is I want my flight-sim newsgroup back....

Gary.

In article <3mtquj$h...@apakabar.cc.columbia.edu>, yn...@merhaba.cc.columbia.edu (Yann Nicolas) says:
>OK... So I was a little afraid of installing Windows 95 over my old
>DOS 6.2/Windows 3.11 because I am a big gamer and thought that most
>games (read Wing Commander III and other "heavy" games) would not
>work...
>PS: OS/2 users will tell me that "OS/2 did that a long time ago", but
>I tried it and didn't like it...

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Subject: Re: Win95 and games: good news...
Date: 1995/04/18
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