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- From: atoenne@mpi-sb.mpg.de (Andreas Toenne)
- Newsgroups: alt.destroy.microsoft,alt.fan.bill-gates,comp.os.ms-windows.nt.misc,comp.os.ms-windows.win95.misc,comp.os.ms-windows.win95.setup,comp.os.os2.advocacy,comp.os.os2.misc,comp.sys.amiga.misc,comp.sys.ibm.pc.games.adventure
- Subject: Re: I will NEVER buy Windows 95 !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! :-(
- Date: 18 Jan 1996 15:20:57 +0100
- Organization: University of Saarland, Computing Center, Germany.
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- In-reply-to: Steven Lee Andreason's message of Tue, 16 Jan 1996 13:26:41 -0800
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- In article <Pine.A32.3.91j.960116132203.16248D-100000@homer20.u.washington.edu> Steven Lee Andreason <sandreas@u.washington.edu> writes:
-
- > In article <4d9iri$7n0@news.mcn.net>, vfiscus@mcn.net
- > >
- > >I don't need to buy Windows 95 to watch my DISK
- > >space disappear or to see my programs run slower.
- > >
- > >
- > >I can hit my computer with a hammer for free, and watch it HAPPEN!!
- > >
- >
- > I'd like to see that hammer run all of next year's hot games, which you
- > won't be able to do on DOS.
- ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
- !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
-
- I love this. First, it was "We have more applications." Now, it's "We
- *WILL* have more applications." I guess you're admitting there aren't
- many right now, right?
-
-
- All wrong! The argument is neither "We have more applications" or
- "We will have more applications" but it is
-
- "You shall not run any future programs unless you use Win95"
- (11th commandment (c) 1996 Mickeysoft)
-
- In a very large and innovative PC market -- the PC gamers -- Win95 simply
- sells through the blunt threat that all future games will be Win95 games
- only. This is, of course, not true but it works!
-
- Andreas Toenne
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