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Re: AOL, Thank You

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From: Allie Martin
Date: Tue, 08 Dec 1998 00:00
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In reply to your posted message, Gerben Bergman, written on Tue, 08 Dec 1998
00:34:32 +0100:

>:   On Mon, 07 Dec 1998 22:01:07 GMT,
>:     "Mike Trettel" spoke the immortal words:
>:   
>:   | 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.
>:   
>:   Makes you feel proud as a father, doesn't it? ;-)

Yeah, already having clarity of thought that does not go with that of the
masses. I think that he should be proud.

Allie
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Allie Martin (Mr.)
<alliem@kasnet.com>
Kingston, Jamaica
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From: alliem@kasnet.com (Allie Martin)
Subject: Re: AOL, Thank You
Date: 1998/12/08
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