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From: gillham@andrews.edu (Andrew Gillham)
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.advocacy,,comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: Dream OS = Linux || FreeBSD
Date: 2 Sep 1995 02:54:07 GMT
Organization: Andrews University
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In article <41vpib$omb@kadath.zeitgeist.net> "Amancio Hasty, Jr." <hasty@rah.star-gate.com> writes:
>
>I think that is much better to slug it out with the windoze corp types .
>At work yesterday, trying to setup Win95 to work with TCP/IP and an
>ethernet card. My friend does a "ping <ip-address> ", the whole 
>window setup freezes for a few seconds and he said: What Happen?
>I told him: Oh, Win95 is doing multitasking :)

C'mon, Win95 is not _that_ bad.  I have it running at work on a Dell
Omniplex 5100 and it doesn't crash/hang/whatever.  Doom II for Windows
95 is _very_ slick (though I had a palette problem once).  
Now compared to my fine NetBSD/i386 box, I think Win95 hugs, but I still
think it is a decent improvement over 3.1.
Why do we have to resort to Windows bashing?  Are we not confident in
our own position/OS?  :-)

-Andrew

PS.  I did nuke Win95 on Thursday though.. What can I say, I needed the
space!! :-)
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