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

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From: Terje A. Bergesen
Date: Mon, 04 Sep 1995 03:51

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In article <42c4lv$a20@news1.panix.com>,
Mark Swearingen <mark@ephesus.com> wrote:
> Summers@Ethyl-the-Frog.ARC.NASA.gov (David P. Summers) wrote:
> 
> =>I'm saying is that, unlike Microsoft, older Macintoshes haven't been
> =>prematurely pushed into obsolesence.  Even today, with a whole new
> =>processor, a plus can still run current software.  Meanwhile, MS
> =>made you get new software when windows came out and now expects
> =>you to get new software to use windows 95.
> 
> Wrong!  Windows 3.1 apps and DOS apps can run under Windows 95.  Who told you 
> otherwise?

Microsoft? There are lots of apps that will not run properly
under Win95. When MS hacked Win95 the bad way that they did
(on top of good old DOS) they did it for backwards compatibility.
When the product is released, it seems that the result is not
as good as could be expected.

_______________________________________________________________________
Terje Bergesen - Bergesen Data
"No users  of microcomputers wants multitasking,  nor would they be
 able to use it. All they would ever do with it would be background
 printing, and you can do that under DOS."  --- Bill Gates.

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Subject: Re: JUST REMEMBER WHY WINDOWS WAS CREATED!!!!!!!!!
Date: Sun, 03 Sep 1995 23:51:08 -0400
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