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

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From: Shadowman
Date: Tue, 12 Sep 1995 05:30
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hotelca@cris.com (Hotel California) wrote:

>Apple's newest OS (system 7) can run, not to badly either, on 68000
>machines.  Try running Windows 95 on a 8088.  It will barely run on a
>386.  System 7 runs quite nicely on 030s.

Excuse me, correct me if I'm wrong, but isn't an 8088 an 8-bit processor?

A 68000 is a 16 bit processor, so if it can handle system 7, no problem, but
comparing the 8088 to the 68000 is stupid.

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From: blow.job@your.moms.house (Shadowman)
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Subject: Re: JUST REMEMBER WHY WINDOWS WAS CREATED!!!!!!!!!
Date: Tue, 12 Sep 1995 05:30:28 GMT
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