Re: JUST REMEMBER WHY WINDOWS WAS CREATED!!!!!!!!!

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From: Colin Smith
Date: Tue, 15 Aug 1995 12:30

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Joe Sloan (jjs@dostoevsky.ucr.edu) wrote:
: In article <adtDCz2F8.IoL@netcom.com>,
: Anthony D. Tribelli <adt@netcom.com> wrote:

: >I've personally installed
: >	Windows 3.x on            5 systems
: >	Windows NT Workstation on 3 systems
: >	Windows NT Server      on 2 systems
: >	IBM OS/2               on 2 systems
: >	linux                  on 3 systems
: >Nothing spectacular, but enough to comment on their relative ease of 
: >installation and configuration.
: >
: >Linux is not easier to install than any of the others, it can be the most 
: >difficult. Of course I only had 3 years of experience as a UNIX user. 
: >Maybe if I had been a system administrator it would be easy?

: >Downloading, unzipping, creating floppies, this is easier? 

So why didn't you buy one of the commercial distributions? Bogus
comparison! Buy the Red Hat cdrom distribution & install that then
 tell me Linux was more difficult! 

It is _more_ difficult to download Linux than it is to install!
--
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|Linux the FREE OS that has a Performance/Price ratio that is  |
|INFINITELY higher than anything sold by Micro$oft!            |
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|         http://sunsite.unc.edu/mdw/linux.html                |
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NOTE:-This is my Opinion and not necessarily the opinion of
ANYONE else, especially not my employer!

Colin Smith.
colins@mojo.europe.dg.com

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From: colins@mojo.europe.dg.com (Colin Smith)
Subject: Re: JUST REMEMBER WHY WINDOWS WAS CREATED!!!!!!!!!
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