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

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From: Eric S.
Date: Sun, 03 Sep 1995 04:20
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In article <42b97r$paf$2@mhafm.production.compuserve.com>, Nathan Jones
<73754.717@CompuServe.COM> wrote:

: Hello everyone.  I don't know why everyone is comparing Win95 to the hunk
: of poorly-designed crap known as the Mac!
: 
: First off, both are crap, don't waste hard earned $$$ on either.
: 
: Second, if you want to argue, the Mac sys 7.5 NEVER had preemptive 
: multitasking (system allots time).  It has a crap-form where an app
: grabs as much time as it wants, and gives it back when it's done.  This
: is Win3.1, people!  This is a TASK-SWITCHER.
: 
: You want real multitasking?  The mac won't do it.  Get OS/2, UNIX, or
: just about anything decent.  Of course, if you want excellence, get an
: amiga.
: 
: BTW: What caused the confusion about whether system 7.5 has everything
: a GOOD machine has is that it has 32-bit addressing and some degree of
: plug&play (which is no more real than Micorsoft's, since ALL SCSI
: peripherals are P&P, and MS's only works with major brand name parts)
: 
: -- 
: 
: "Who'll ever need more than 640K of RAM?" -Bill Gates
: NPJ ----> On Amiga AutoPilot 1.80

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Subject: Re: JUST REMEMBER WHY WINDOWS WAS CREATED!!!!!!!!!
Date: Sun, 03 Sep 1995 00:20:12 -0400
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