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On Sat, 17 Jun 1995, Robert L. Stinnett wrote:

> Subject: Re: Application Chauvinism by Major FTP site
> 
> In article <3rvtnu$5b3@news1.halcyon.com> you wrote:
> : I had to laugh at this post.  Recently I pulled all my Windows 
> : development tools off my computer. Boy did that give me a lot of extra 
> : disk space. This included the Windows SDK, DDK, WING, VB, IMAGE Kneif, 
> : and lost of samples and fixes off the MSNet. I'm back with UNIX. WHY! 
> : Because Mr. Bill had me cut off from developer support last year. I was 
> : making since again. : ) 
> 
> : Do you know how much faster a Dos Graphics program is?  Adobe has puncher
> 
> Yes, Joan, DOS is faster and a hell of a lot better.
> 
> Tandy Corp who marketed DeskMate, a graphical interface that could run - 
> very fast - on 8088 machines was destroyed the same way.  Ol' Billy made 
> it so no one paid attention to Tandy's interface and said it would never 
> take off.  Tandy had a lot of major developers including Lotus, Sierra 
> and PFS.  When Windows took off around 1991 DeskMate was DEAD.  Tandy 
> dropped it because Billy Boy pressured companies to develop for HIS 
> interfacce, and Tandy, once the #1 manufacturer and seller of PC's, died 
> a quiet death.
> 
> : YES - Bill Gates has killed more computer developers than any other I 
> : care to comment on. If he only had a college education in CS....
> 
> He hasn't killed me.  THere are thousands of people who still use 
> DeskMate, and about 3 or 4 of us developers left who write shareware 
> programs, etc. to keep the crowd alive.  A lot of people have deleted 
> Windows off their machine and installed DeskMate, which I love!
> 
> I will not use Windows, will never use Windows, and will probably never 
> program for Windows unless I get a hell of a lot of money.
> 
> RLS
Why don't we just kick ass... Gates has stollen most of my work now and 
then used his damed attorneys to trash me and keep me starved. WHat I see 
is a basic DOS TCP/IP ap that will access INTERNET on a 286. I've been on 
the INTERNET on an XT and there was very little difference in 
performance. How is this possible. Could it be that we could really have 
a DOS program that runs faster than Mosaic.  I don't think it would take 
that much! The hell with share ware. How about a Coop!  I say we do a DOS 
INTERNET with Graphics program.... I got the research and know it can 
work better than any MS program in Windows.!!! 
J~

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> | Robert L. Stinnett, c592073@showme.missouri.edu, StinnettR@aol.com    |
> | University of Missouri - Columbia, USA - Computer Science             |
> | Member of the Harper Valley, P.T.A.    <-------+      +---------------+ 
> | Programmer, Consultant, Analyst, Developer     |      | Tandy DeskMate|
> | Web:  http://www.missouri.edu/~c592073         +------| Developer,    |
> | Maintainer of ftp://musie.phlab.missouri.edu/pub/trs  | Independent   |
> |   -- an ftp site for Tandy PC files.                  | IS Consultant |   
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