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

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From: Bill Oconnor
Date: Sun, 27 Aug 1995 23:54

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In article <41qq7a$7gu@earth.superlink.net>,
                  gkm@mars.superlink.net  (Gary McNees) wrote:
>In <41q9r5$n4g@camco.celestial.com>,
             bill@camco2.celestial.com (Bill Campbell) writes:
                      >>Flightline (flightline@aol.com) wrote:

>>: Why dont you guys get off off Microsofts case.  Lets not forget who
>>: trained the IBM staff in 32bit OS coding.  Gee was it Microsoft.  If those
>>: Beamers werent such assholes then Microsoft would've continued the
>>: partnership.

>>MS trained IBM on 32 bit OS coding?  That's the funniest thing I've
>>seen in a long time.  First off, the only real Operating System that
>>MS ever worked on was Xenix back around 1982 (when they got it working
>>on a real 32-bit chip, the Motorola 68000).  Everything else MS had
>>done is a BDPL (Brain-Damaged Program Loader).



>>INTERNET:  bill@Celestial.COM   Bill Campbell; Celestial Systems, Inc.


>                     Also, MS did NOT DESIGN NT!  They hired DEC guys
>expert in OS design to do it for them.

Gary, there are many who will dispute the word "expert" when describing
those folks.

>Gary


Bill Oconnor

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Subject: Re: Ask yourself these before you choosing a 32bit OS...
Date: 27 Aug 1995 19:54:31 -0400
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