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From: "Amancio Hasty, Jr." <hasty@rah.star-gate.com>
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.advocacy,,comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: Dream OS = Linux || FreeBSD
Date: 3 Sep 1995 03:26:21 GMT
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gillham@andrews.edu (Andrew Gillham) wrote:
>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

Actually, my friend just simply walked away :)

>Omniplex 5100 and it doesn't crash/hang/whatever.  Doom II for Windows
You are lucky but hey if it works for you , great!!

>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?  :-)

On the contrary , is about how confident I am about my OS position .

Darn, since you deleted Win95 now I can't flame you 8)

	Cheers,
	Amancio

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