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Re: Anyone going to WINDOWS WORLD?

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From: John Hattan
Date: Thu, 07 Sep 1995 00:00
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rjmyers@dseg.ti.com (Bob Myers) wrote:

>I'm thinking about going (got my badge in the mail about a month ago
>from last year's pre-registration).

>I'm wondering if Microsoft will be having a large group of support/"techie"-type
>people there to answer hard questions about win'95 -- with the rate of questions
>& problems being posted on the related win'95 newsgroups, I'm also wondering:

Not a chance.  MS will send a bunch of professional trade-show attendees
for their booth.  If you ask a technical question, they will give you
the 800-number.

[deletia]

>p.s.  i'd like to find out if their comments about being able to run faster 
>during the install process could cause them to get into trouble for false
>advertising.  doom running on my 486dx2-66/8mb ram system runs good...but
>under win'95, it acts like it's running on a 386-25 or so style machine...

Runs at a nice clip on my 486/66.  In fact, I didn't notice any speed
loss at all.
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John Hattan          High UberPopeness of the First Church of Shatnerology
The Code Zone        Sweet Software for a Saturnine World
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Subject: Re: Anyone going to WINDOWS WORLD?
Date: 1995/09/07
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