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> 5) Seriously:  Does any other OS (NeXTstep, Taligent, Solaris, Open Desktop)
>         stand a chance in a marketplace with this type of ignorance?

When NeXT started this was at the heart of their ideas. Lots of DOS user's
will type 'R' 'E' 'T' 'U' 'R' 'N' when told to type <Return>. The lack of
knowledge about computers and their basics is very widespread and hard to
believe by people who are capable of posting to the net. For 99% of the users
it is totally irrelevant what the OS is. They will most of the time not be
able to grasp even a small portion of what can be done.

For us, netters, OS, CPU's etc are the things we like to talk about. All these
OS's and environments only stand a chance when tey are *not* subject of
discussion with any possible customer.

Of course, since the Workstation market is still far away from being
challenging the PC market, we will see largely scientific and engineering work
for Workstations and DOS everywhere else. Bill gates might in fact be the only
one who has a *chance* of getting people to use a real OS. They will by from
him whatever he delivers (see Windows 3.0).
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