Re: Ask yourself these before you choosing a 32bit OS...

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From: Kazimir Kylheku
Date: Sat, 26 Aug 1995 18:05

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In article <edodge-2408951158270001@ip-pdx3-09.teleport.com>,
Edward Dodge <edodge@teleport.com> wrote:

>I don't know where you are getting your Mac info,  but when Win 3.0 showed
>up,  multifinder was already *years* old.  I remember quite clearly
>because System 6 was the big thing then,  and DOS users were telling me
>their sour-grapes line:  "Who needs to run two programs at the same time
>anyway?"  Apparently *they* did.  Heh heh heh!

Right. And now Mac users are telling _their_ sour grapes line: "Who needs
pre-emptive multitasking and virtual, protected address spaces?"

Hey, there still is an Apple II newsgroup for die-hard zealots of a bygone
mini-era.
-- 
Finger c2a192@keats.ugrad.cs.ubc.ca for PGP public key. Or contact
one of the public key servers -- the key id is 0xD3C7995D.

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From: c2a192@ugrad.cs.ubc.ca (Kazimir Kylheku)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.powerpc,comp.os.linux.advocacy,comp.sys.mac.advocacy,comp.os.os2.advocacy,comp.sys.amiga.advocacy,comp.sys.intel,alt.2600,comp.os.ms-windows.advocacy
Subject: Re: Ask yourself these before you choosing a 32bit OS...
Date: 26 Aug 1995 11:05:22 -0700
Organization: Computer Science, University of B.C., Vancouver, B.C., Canada
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