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- From: mccall@mksol.dseg.ti.com (fred j mccall 575-3539)
- Subject: Re: Notice! OS2 will Execute Win3 programs Without having to have Win
- Message-ID: <1992Dec29.230354.17542@mksol.dseg.ti.com>
- Organization: Texas Instruments Inc
- References: <1992Dec28.193142.18322@mksol.dseg.ti.com> <Dec29.053414.37837@yuma.ACNS.ColoState.EDU> <1992Dec29.161644.7734@mksol.dseg.ti.com> <C017Kp.A1w@uxa.ecn.bgu.edu>
- Date: Tue, 29 Dec 1992 23:03:54 GMT
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- In <C017Kp.A1w@uxa.ecn.bgu.edu> mfprf@uxa.ecn.bgu.edu (Paul R. Falzer) writes:
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-
- >I am an MS-DOS/MS-WIN user.
-
- I am an MS-DOS/Win31--OS/2--Solaris--VMS--IRIX--RISC/os--OS-9--MVS
- user (I quite using VM/CMS a while back).
-
- >I suppose that others of my ilk become incensed
- >when they see or hear the mantra, "OS/2. . .OS/2." I do not.
-
- Neither do I. I simply think that newsgroups have charters and
- staying in the charter is in everyones' best interests. Otherwise,
- why not just have one big newsgroup?
-
- >Rather, I'm
- >interested in any information or expertise that might help me, or others
- >like me, to solve a problem or to learn something new about the operation
- >and configuration of Microsoft Windows, which runs under a variety of
- >operating systems.
-
- So you would favor a bunch of postings about running Windows under
- SoftPC or under Solaris in this group? Sorry, but I have to disagree.
-
- >Any posting that even minimally meets this standard is
- >just fine with me; but, slings and arrows, beer commercials, and testaments
- >to the power of school spirit are not. Any variation on a theme of "shut
- >your ### mouth and go play in another sandbox" is arrogance, pure and
- >simple.
-
- And just what do you call your apparent belief that YOU set the
- standards for what belongs where? ;-)
-
- [Don't bother answering that -- it's a no-win position.]
-
-
-
- --
- "Insisting on perfect safety is for people who don't have the balls to live
- in the real world." -- Mary Shafer, NASA Ames Dryden
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- Fred.McCall@dseg.ti.com - I don't speak for others and they don't speak for me.
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