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

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From: Joe Sloan
Date: Thu, 03 Aug 1995 18:42

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In article <3vppml$3vs@news1.databank.com>,
Paul E Larson <paulel@dreamscape.com> wrote:
>Jim Phillips <gh3004@conrad.appstate.edu> wrote:
>
>>Not to mention that not all 32 bit OSes cost anything at all.. *plug*
>
>Of course LINUX costs something the programs might not cost you
>anything but the cost of learning and becoming productive under LINUX
>costs your time and energy. The question should what does LINUX or any
>freeware version of UNIX cost more or less than OS/2 or Windows after
>factoring in the learning costs.

Any environment has a learning curve, dos, windows, or unix...

For those who have a fear of learning, computers in general are
a bad idea - best to stick to something less challenging....

IMHO

--
 Joe Sloan     jjs@engr.ucr.edu   http://dostoevsky.ucr.edu
     Win95? No, none for me, thanks - I'm already running Linux...
 Microsoft is not the answer - Microsoft is the question; the answer is NO!

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Newsgroups: comp.sys.powerpc,comp.os.linux.advocacy,comp.sys.mac.advocacy,comp.os.os2.advocacy,comp.sys.amiga.advocacy,comp.sys.intel,alt.2600,alt.destroy.microsoft,comp.os.ms-windows.advocacy
Subject: Re: Ask yourself these before you choosing a 32bit OS...
Date: 3 Aug 1995 18:42:38 GMT
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