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Article #244Re: AOL, Thank You
From: Mike Trettel
Date: Mon, 07 Dec 1998 00:00
Date: Mon, 07 Dec 1998 00:00
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On Sat, 05 Dec 1998 05:19:13 GMT, John Thompson <nospam@savebandwidth.com> wrote: >I'll put my hand up -- kind of, anyway. I don't use any Win >games, but my kids do; otherwise we'd be in OS/2 or linux >continuously. But when my son asked for access to the internet I >set it up for him in linux only. I figure that's the only way >he'll get exposure to a non-Windows operating system. I doubt >he'll see anything but Windows in school anyway... > >-John (John.Thompson@ibm.net) > My son keeps asking me why none of the PC's at his school have OS/2 or Linux on them. I gave him the long winded answer about how Windows is the dominant OS, the school is going to use what comes on the PC, most easily available software is Windows only, the teachers wouldn't know how to use anything but Windows anyway, blah blah blah. I then asked him why he asked the question in the first place. His reply was that the PC's at school were always crashed for some reasion or another, and he thought that they needed to use a more reliable OS. Out of the mouth of babes (or a ten year old, in this case).... =========== Mike Trettel trettel (Shift 2) fred (dinky little round thing) net Skep-Ti-Cult # 157-894589-983 ICQ # 15339850 I don't buy from spammers. No exceptions. Fix the reply line to mail me.
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X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 1103af,a1676c29e9392b29 X-Google-Attributes: gid1103af,public X-Google-Thread: 1025b4,a1676c29e9392b29 X-Google-Attributes: gid1025b4,public X-Google-Thread: f4bda,a1676c29e9392b29 X-Google-Attributes: gidf4bda,public X-Google-Thread: 10d8ad,a1676c29e9392b29 X-Google-Attributes: gid10d8ad,public X-Google-Thread: 1138ec,a1676c29e9392b29 X-Google-Attributes: gid1138ec,public X-Google-Thread: fcfb9,a1676c29e9392b29 X-Google-Attributes: gidfcfb9,public From: possum@tree.branch (Mike Trettel) Subject: Re: AOL, Thank You Date: 1998/12/07 Message-ID: <slrn76ok13.1e9.possum@ss5.fred.net> X-Deja-AN: 419791335 References: <etUZ7jAG#GA.256@upnetnews03> <365d9c27.0@news1.ibm.net> <73pbp6$e0o$1@news.ycc.yale.edu> <3661c6a9.0@news1.ibm.net> <3662ee25.853363@news-server> <3661F92C.B86A85D@net-link.net> <Yqzh521VLZKl-pn2-5Xm1o3ofFIxq@localhost> <73u2bf$7uc$1@netra.msu.montana.edu> <M3mPvLdzxX1t-pn2-NxV61jWnecSM@tp244-10.dialup.seed.net.tw> <748ps0$drf$1@netra.msu.montana.edu> <M3mPvLdzxX1t-pn2-drGT46vq4d8I@tp246-218.dialup.seed.net.tw> <749ujm$pc0$1@netra.msu.montana.edu> <3668A679.CF6E08D7@mad-seumas.net> <c1.2c.2Nr2yB$0x0@rhino_house.ibm.net> X-Complaints-To: postmaster@fred.net X-Trace: news.abs.net 913068067 204.215.84.119 (Mon, 07 Dec 1998 17:01:07 EDT) Organization: Twinco, Inc. Reply-To: Y'all have to fix this@nowhere NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 07 Dec 1998 17:01:07 EDT Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.x,gnu.misc.discuss,uk.comp.os.linux,comp.os.linux.advocacy,comp.os.os2.advocacy,comp.os.linux.misc