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From: root@marsgrp.tamu.edu (dsemon)
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Subject: Re: Historic Opportunity facing Free Unix (was Re: The Lai/Baker paper, benchmarks, and the world of free UNIX)
Date: 14 Apr 1996 15:47:16 GMT
Organization: Texas A&M University, College Station, TX
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Message-ID: <slrn4n24bs.anb.root@marsgrp.tamu.edu>
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On 12 Apr 1996 18:37:01 -0700, root <root@chaos.anarch.org> wrote:
>In article <NELSON.96Apr12112334@ns.crynwr.com>, Russell Nelson wrote:
>>In article <yfglok14n5r.fsf@time.cdrom.com> jkh@time.cdrom.com (Jordan K. Hubbard) writes:
>{both of them said lots of good stuff. you could look it up.}
>
>Russ, Windows 95 is a monstrosity. The *only* thing that amazes me about it
>is that Microsoft isn't releasing Windows 1Q '96, Windows March 96, Windows
>not know how to streamline these processes without sacrificing the
>astounding flexibility that Un*x offers. I wish I did; then I would own the
>world. It seems to me that the computing world is forking at this point:
>those who know little about computers and like it that way are W95 oriented.
>Those of us who like using the computer for more than office work and games
There comes a point when a single solution just won't do it.
As much as I find Windows capable of nothing useful, some
people find it so because they just don't have the grey matter
necessary to realize that they can't really do a whole hell
of a lot with it or to understand how frustrating the windows
"mental prison" is to those of us capable of abstract thinking.
Be patient. The keyboard was designed with opposable thumbs
in mind. The mouse will help here, until evolution catches up.
-- semon@comp.tamu.edu
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