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nmouawad@water.waterloo.edu (Naji Mouawad) writes:
> 1) DOS 5.0, DesqView and VCPI:
> [...]

There was an article recently posted to one of the comp.os.msdos
groups about DOS 5.0.  The general verdict was that there wasn't much
of one -- i.e., not enough is known about it yet.  Microsoft would
alienate a *lot* of users if DESQview and QEMM didn't run under it, so
I'm betting that they'll make sure it does before they release it.

This is pure speculation, though, so your milage certainly will vary.

> 2) Before reading PC Magazine,  I tear down all glossy pages, all
> pages that stands out of the mass of soft plastified pages. They make
> flipping through the mags difficult and make the ads look pompous
> if anything else. I counted over 50 pages that I had to throw away
> from the last issue of PC Mags. Am I the only one who doesn't like 
> these pages or what ?

No, you're not the only one.  I'm also annoyed by all of those
cardboard insert cards, half of which are PC Magazine subscription
cards.  I already *have* a subscription to the #!#$#%@ magazine; why are
you asking me for another one?

This is one of the reasons I'm not going to renew my subscription when
it lapses in November.  (The others include much too much coverage of
Windows 3.0 and OS/2, along with their apparant readiness to give
anybody with a large ad budget a good review.  Did anybody but me
notice the fact that they practically endorsed the new PS/1, which is
based on a 10MHz 286 -- an about-face from their previous hard-line
stance of "nothing less than a 386SX"?  Do you think that had
*anything at all* to do with the fact that IBM is a big multinational
corporation that buys a lot of ad space in PC Magazine?)

>   a) Do you keep your computer ON all day and switch it OFF at the
>      end of the day, or do you switch it OF every time you are done ?

I keep my computer on all the time, day and night.  This is in part
because it's a UUCP-connected machine and I like to have my news
transferred overnight, instead of waiting an hour every morning for it
to grab all the news batches that came in overnight.

>   b) Is your computer standing on its side ?

No, but it has been several times over the years that I've had it.  I
didn't notice any differences in operation, and only switched the
configuration because of some new peripherals I added that didn't fit
in with the computer sideways.

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