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- Subject: Re: windows
- Date: Tue, 30 Jan 1996 01:27:42 GMT
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- bd@dcs.st-and.ac.uk (Brian Duff) wrote:
- Subject: Re: windows (alt.destroy.microsoft)
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- >>>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
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- >>You can still buy Windows 3.11 (Just saw it at Staples). Go with WFW
- >>3.11. IMO, go with Win95, it is much better than Windows 3.XX.
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- >IMHO there is absoulutely nothing wrong with Win95 as such. Any problems seem to be caused by backward-compatability issues,
- >but that is only to be expected: the world can't sit still forever.
- >
- >Buying Win 3.11 is probably not a good idea. If you wan't to beoucott Windows, or have some undefined hatred
- >for Microsoft (which is a silly, and pointless attitude), then fine. >By all means, go with OS/2. I can judge Win95 and OS/2 on their
- >merits. Both have good points and bad points, but I wouldn't say that either one is necessarily better than the other.
- >
- >To return to my point, though, buying an out-of date version of a product isn't generally a good idea,
- >unless there are significant compatability issues with the new version, which is
- >not really the case here. Upgrading a system is a different matter altogether - there are a lot more issues involved.
- >
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- first intelligent comment i have seen...
- btw u need to press 'enter' at the end of each line
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