🚀 go-pugleaf

In article <1684F14DEC.S947460@UMSLVMA.UMSL.EDU> S947460@UMSLVMA.UMSL.EDU (Andrew Zaitsev) writes:
>Most of the previous posts already include my reasons for
>hating microsoft.
>I decided to post, because yesterday I had a new experience,
>that even made my feelings deeper.
>I went to the bookstore to see if there are any new books on OS/2
>and I was most surprised to find on the most visible place OS/2
>book published by ... Microsoft Press. First couldn't believe my
>eyes, I thought that the Evil Empire is changing if they release
>books on the product they used to boycott ...Well, I was wrong -
>the book was published in 1990, before the Great Split.
>Anyway, I browsed thru the book and in the section called OS/2 2.0
>(in 1990!) there was an interview with Bill Gates. He sounded very
>persistive, telling reporter that OS/2 is the system of the future
>and that Microsoft is not going to incorporate sophisticated multi-
>tasking in Windows, leaving it to OS/2, and above all, he confirmed

IE. No threads in MS Windows 3.x or 4.x

>that Windows is just an upgrade path to OS/2.
> 

Sure it is.... OS/2 2.0 allows you to run MS Windows apps. does it not?
(Even BETTER than Windows 3.1!)

>It looks like mechanisms of changing the historical documents described
>by George Orwell in "1984" would be very useful for Microsoft.


I cannot see anything that Bill Gates said (that you quoted) that is
inaccurate or misleading....  

-Fred Bent
fwbent@watmsg.uwaterloo.ca