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- From: "Geir Magnusson Jr." <gmj@panix.com>
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- Subject: Re: windows
- Date: Thu, 18 Jan 1996 00:31:22 +0000
- Organization: Procrastinators for Progress
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- Asgeir Aegisson wrote:
- >
- > Hadin21992 wrote:
- > >
- > > i have heard a lot about windows95(all bad) and i am just wondering.
- > > which is better windows 95 or windows 3.0 (which i am using now). it
- > > might be a good idea to tell you that i can't run any recent version of
- > > aol so i have to use dos 1.6 version. which is the sorriest piece of crap
- > > i have ever seen. WHY WON'T ANYONE SELL 3.1 ANYMORE??????
- > > Hadin21992@aol.com
- >
- > If your using Windows at work and you don't want to waste your time
- > just trying to keep your computer running - Windows 95 is by far a
- > much better OS than Windows 3.1x. And you can run most Win 3.1x apps.
- > in Win 95. - Sure you have to upgrade your hardware - but thats the
- > cost of a REAL OS.
-
- And why exactly can a 16-bit OS running on a 32-bit platform be termed
- a 'REAL OS'?
-
- (Yes, 95 is 16-bit in some critical parts...).
-
- geir
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