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From: Roger Armstrong <mcurry@fred.net>
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: windows messing with boot manager
Date: Mon, 23 Dec 1996 23:18:17 -0500
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> 
> As was said to me the first(and thus far only) time I had to use W95,
> nine months after I started with FBSD,
>         "a real operating system does not prepare you for Windows 95".

Win95 is not an operating system:  it is a user interface that also
happens to contain some rudimentary features of the type commonly
associated with operating systems.

My kids love it.  Runs Paintshop; runs SimCity. What more could you ask
for?