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  2. From: icrosby@mail.utexas.edu (Ian Crosby)
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  4. Subject: Re: Will anyone buy NT??  (Yes - Intelligent People)
  5. Date: 28 Jan 1996 14:35:31 GMT
  6. Organization: U.T. Law
  7. Message-ID: <4eg1jj$rcp@geraldo.cc.utexas.edu>
  8. References: <4ef48q$rik@news.iag.net>
  9. Reply-To: icrosby@mail.utexas.edu (Ian Crosby)
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  12.  
  13. In <4ef48q$rik@news.iag.net>, John Linder <jgl@iag.net> writes:
  14. >steve.withers@ibm.net (Steve Withers) writes:
  15. >> In article <4e8b8k$5ql@ixnews4.ix.netcom.com>, Stauf wrote:
  16. >> 
  17. >> Perhaps among Microsoft's 'yester-tech' operating systems.
  18. >> 
  19. >> If you want backward compatibility, stability *and* smooth pre-emptive
  20. >> multitasking of both native and 'legacy' apps - you choose OS/2 Warp.
  21. >> 
  22. >> Six million people did last year - one million in December '95 alone.
  23. >> 
  24. >> Without the preloads, Win95 didn't even come close. Upgraders are
  25. >> going for OS/2.
  26.  
  27. >***>>>>>Yea right?  That is why even the OS/2 programmers are conceding that 
  28. Win 95 is about to put them out of business.
  29.  
  30. From last quarter's financial results, it looks like its the Win95/NT
  31. programmers who are having financial difficulties (don't tell me you don't
  32. know what I'm talking about).
  33.  
  34. Ian B. Crosby
  35. icrosby@mail.utexas.edu
  36.  
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