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  2. From: cprohman@ix.netcom.com (Carl Rohman)
  3. Newsgroups: alt.2600,alt.binaries.warez.ibm-pc,alt.destroy.microsoft,alt.fan.bill-gates,alt.wired,comp.infosystems.www.browsers.ms-windows,comp.os.ms-windows.nt.misc,comp.os.ms-windows.win95.misc,comp.os.ms-windows.win95.setup,alt.sex.anal,comp.os.os2.advocacy,comp.os.os2.misc,comp.sys.amiga.misc,comp.sys.ibm.pc.games.adventure,comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware.chips,comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware.misc,comp.unix.unixware.misc
  4. Subject: Re: Will anyone buy NT?? (Yes - Intelligent People)
  5. Date: Sun, 25 Feb 1996 03:18:40 GMT
  6. Organization: Netcom
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  13. budbrown@ix.netcom.com (Roland Brown) wrote:
  14. <snip>
  15. >Actually, IMHO the OS wars, although seemingly over, could turn into a
  16. >real WILD horse race if either OS/2 or Win95 had a half-dozen gifted
  17. >ASM programmers optimizing it for speed and to run like wind on 4
  18. >megs.  Heck, I remember multi tasking very smoothly on mainframes with
  19. >64k (note: not 64 megs) back in the 70's.  Of course the architecture
  20. >was quiet different, but its amazing what a really competent ASM
  21. >programmer can do.  :-)
  22.  
  23. True, but programming in Assembler requires a brain.
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