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- From: kdavis@digital.net (Kevin Davis)
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- Subject: Re: I will NEVER buy Windows 95 !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! :-(
- Date: Sat, 20 Jan 1996 02:25:34 GMT
- Organization: Pseudo-Sloth
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- Tim Walker <twalker@infosphere.com> wrote:
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- >I had an old OS-2 1.x book around here that had a preface by
- >bill gates saying that this was THE operating system of the
- >future...
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- So? and your point is? Gates and/or his company was probably working
- on the project at the time wasn't he? Do you seem to think that Gates
- is the only person who has been terribly wrong about predicting the
- future?
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- You are kind of putting yourself in a catch 22 here. You are either
- saying Gates was a moron for saying that because it turned out to be
- totally wrong, or you are saying that Gates is an astounding prophet
- since he was exactly right.
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- Which one is it?
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- and the next question after you answer that one is "have you stopped
- beating your wife?"
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