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In article
<Pine.SGI.3.91.950918023956.2403B-100000@lonestar.jpl.utsa.edu>, Jeff
George <jgeorge@lonestar.jpl.utsa.edu> wrote:

> On 18 Sep 1995, David Findley wrote:
> 
> > In article <435bil$1ab@mn5.swip.net>, Martin Nisshagen <martin@mts.se>
wrote:
> > 
> > > laddvt@aol.com (Ladd Van Tol) wrote:
> > > >If you mean 32-bit *preemptive* multitasking OS, then you'd be right.
> > > >Otherwise, I would suspect that MacOS is more common.
> > > 
> > > Yepp. I ment real multitasking (no macos) and real 32-bit (no win95).
> >                ^^^^
> > You misspelled pre-emptive. :)
> > 
> > David Findley
> > davidf@kepler.umsl.edu
> 
> And you mis-spelled mis-spelled, by the same token. Actually, "preemptive" 
> is a preferred common spelling, without the hyphen (as is "misspell.") 
> Talk about picking totally irrelevant nits! Isn't that why there's a 
> comp.os.multitasking.jargon.spelling newsgroup?

Never saw the hyphen in "misspelled" before, the American Heritage
Dictionary spells it the way I do; check yours and see what it says.  And
picking totally irrelevant nits is pretty much the reason for advocacy
groups anyway, I trim irrelevant ones.  Why do people decide to crosspost
.advocacy with any other kind of newsgroup anyway?  Seems kind of mean to
me.

David Findley
davidf@kepler.umsl.edu

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Jeff George <jgeorge@lonestar.jpl.utsa.edu> wrote:
>On 18 Sep 1995, David Findley wrote:
>
>> In article <435bil$1ab@mn5.swip.net>, Martin Nisshagen <martin@mts.se> wrote:
>> > Yepp. I ment real multitasking (no macos) and real 32-bit (no win95).
>>                ^^^^
>> You misspelled pre-emptive. :)
>> 
>> David Findley
>> davidf@kepler.umsl.edu
>
>And you mis-spelled mis-spelled, by the same token. Actually, "preemptive" 
>is a preferred common spelling, without the hyphen (as is "misspell.") 
>Talk about picking totally irrelevant nits! Isn't that why there's a 
>comp.os.multitasking.jargon.spelling newsgroup?

Jeff,
Pay attention to the carets, man! preemptive, or pre-emptive it just aint
spelled r-e-a-l.

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