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Re: Operating Systems? Where would you go next?

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From: bob_more
Date: Sun, 12 Nov 2000 00:00
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letoured@nospam.net wrote:
> Bob Lyday <lydayfamilydiespammersdie@sierratel.com> said:
> 
> >Mike Stephen wrote:
> >> 
> > Get a life!  Its time to
> >> move on.  OS/2 is dying, get alife.
> 
> >OS/2 is dying...let's see, people have been saying this for how long?  8
> >years?
> 
> And its lasted longer then MS DOS, Win31, W95, W98, the new ME, NT x (all
> versions), and Win2000!  -- Not bad for a dead OS, and the total cost to the
> user has been far less then the Wincrap route with more functionality.
> 
> Now if we could only figure out how to make the wintrolls the thing dying off, 
> we would have a world that is better off.

as opposed to wintrolls, their proper name is elmers as in they like to spread
their FUD (Fear Uncertainty and Doubt) about anything not windows. They're
doing it in the linux arena now to. Same gang, same tactics, yawnsville...
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From: bob_more <bob_more@yahoo.com>
Subject: Re: Operating Systems?  Where would you go next?
Date: 2000/11/12
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