Re: Win95: Been there, done that.

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From: bi... William F. Mullin
Date: Wed, 03 May 1995 00:00

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In article <fortsa.36...@wwc.edu> for...@wwc.edu (Samuel Fortiner) writes:
>>> Yes, but OS/2 is slow and quirky, and NOWHERE near as friendly as Win95.
>>Well, at least with warp you don't have stupid resource limitations.  As 
>>for slow and quirky, do you care to back your name calling with 
>>anything?  
>
>I know for a fact that OS/2 on a 486/66 with 8 meg of ram swaps like hell.  
>I've waited for over 20 seconds for it to minimize a window.  
                      ^^ ^^^^^^^
  What kind of crap is this??  I have run Warp (2.1 and 3.0) for over a
year with 8MB of RAM.  It sure as hell didn't take "20 seconds" to 
minimize a window.  This is pure FUD (Fear, Uncertainty, and Doubt).

		[WinEver lovefest deleted]

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Subject: Re: Win95:  Been there, done that.
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