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- Path: sparky!uunet!munnari.oz.au!metro!usage!spectrum!pendrith
- From: pendrith@spectrum.cs.unsw.oz.au (Mark Pendrith)
- Subject: Re: Windows NT: The Other side of the coin
- Message-ID: <1992Dec22.013552.1171@usage.csd.unsw.OZ.AU>
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- Reply-To: pendrith@spectrum.cs.unsw.oz.au (Mark Pendrith)
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- References: <2b2ddb86@f514.n202.z1.fidonet.org> <1992Dec16.215713.22059@netcom.com> <1992Dec17.015023.2841@ringer.cs.utsa.edu>
- Date: Tue, 22 Dec 1992 01:35:52 GMT
- Lines: 72
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- In article <1992Dec17.015023.2841@ringer.cs.utsa.edu> mlevis@ringer.cs.utsa.edu (Mike Levis) (OS/2) writes:
- >In article <1992Dec16.215713.22059@netcom.com> timbol@netcom.com (Mike Timbol) writes:
- >
- >
- >
- >>Note that some of these problems also apply to OS/2 2.x (any version).
- >>I welcome other people's input on this list, especially how you see
- >>OS/2 compare in these areas.
- >>
- >> - Mike
- >>
- >>P.S. - I apologize for posting information about NT in this group, but
- >> I'm sure the people that have a problem with it won't mind this
- >> particular article.
- >
- >You posted advocacy-type info about NT here, so that is okay. Just as long
- >as no one posts discussion-type info about NT (which would belong in some NT
- >discussion group) in an OS/2 group. Examples of NT discussion that would
- >not be welcome in this OS/2 group is like:
- >
- > ``>Where can I get the NT beta and a pizza?
- > >Thanks in advance...''
- >
- > ``Oh, just call 1-800-xxx-xxxx for NT, and xxx-xxxx for Pizza Hut.
- > Hope this helps!''
- >
- >or
- >
- > ``>>I know what HPFS is and NTFS is, but what is ETFS?''
- >
- > ``>Evil Timothy F. Sipples :-)''
- >
- > ``dont mention name to me. he very bad person. he spread FUD
- > about our NT. he is fiend. he not deserve to live in america.
- > send him to foreign place. i am american since born, but evil
- > sipples must be born jupiter or sun. who stand up to such evil?
- > even if we chase evil sipples out of america, some NoS/2 person
- > take his place.''
- >
- >or
- >
- > ``>Did anyone hear about the new game applet someone wrote for NT?''
- >
- > ``Yes, I installed it yesterday. In this game you must battle the
- > Evil Sipples and his band of Amigoid-like OS/2 users. They have
- > been blinded by the greed of IBM. Beware: don't be fooled by
- > the Evil Sipples. He "acts" nice and helpful, but be scared -- be
- > very, very scared.''
- >
- >i.e. when two or more NT people talk to each other.
- >
- >--
- >==== Mike Levis mlevis@ringer.cs.utsa.edu ====
- >:: ftp ftp-os2.nmsu.edu (128.123.35.151) :: .--.
- >:: for OS/2 software & information. Get :: (OS/2)
- >:::: the OS/2 FAQL /pub/os2/all/info/faq ::::: ~--~
-
- i like this very much. NT: the New Troglodytism?
-
- BTW, has anyone else noticed that there is actually almost *no* windows
- advocacy in the ms-windows.advocacy group? you look in there every so often,
- and see maybe 8 or so new postings a day. all the windows odvocates (this
- was a typo, but may be a freudian slip) seem to be over here!
-
- will the last windows advocate to leave please remeber to turn the lights out,
- etc.?
-
- - Mark
-
- pendrith@cs.unsw.oz.au
-
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