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Re: Win95 is like TV

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From: Peter Payne
Date: Tue, 29 Aug 1995 13:13
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Dave Glue <daveacg@interlog.com> wrote:

> And if they not, companies know that being the
> first out of the block with the "95" label on their product will
> guarantee sales- if people will line up after 12 am for Windows 95,
> they'll be suckers enough to buy products just because they have the
> "95" label on them.

Kind of like television. Television is always pitched low, so that
people of below average intelligence can get all the jokes. That is why
television is bad. Windows 95 (and Windows in general) is like that.
Kind of like the USA Today of operating systems.

> And of course, who's to say Win95 won't sell in the tens of millions
> before '96?

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From: leto2@gol1.gol.com (Peter Payne)
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Subject: Re: Win95 is like TV
Date: 29 Aug 1995 22:13:08 +0900
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