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- From: mccall@mksol.dseg.ti.com (fred j mccall 575-3539)
- Subject: Re: More advertising
- Message-ID: <1992Dec30.181522.5719@mksol.dseg.ti.com>
- Organization: Texas Instruments Inc
- References: <1992Dec29.135215.20084@panix.com> <1992Dec29.155440.23938@wam.umd.edu> <8230@lib.tmc.edu> <1992Dec29.181546.1151@wam.umd.edu>
- Date: Wed, 30 Dec 1992 18:15:22 GMT
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- In <1992Dec29.181546.1151@wam.umd.edu> rsrodger@wam.umd.edu (Yamanari) writes:
-
- >In article <8230@lib.tmc.edu> jmaynard@oac.hsc.uth.tmc.edu (Jay Maynard) writes:
- >>In article <1992Dec29.155440.23938@wam.umd.edu> rsrodger@wam.umd.edu (Yamanari) writes:
- >>>>"With an operating system that can run all of your DOS, Windows, and OS/2
- >>> ^^^
- >>> Pull this word.
- >>
- >>You're being unnecessarily pedantic - there's NO OS that meets the criterion
- >>you're holding OS/2 up to.
-
-
- > So we're agreed that using the word "all" is a lie, right? So
- > *pull the word*.
-
- Yes, it's a 'lie' in the same sense that any usage of the words 'all',
- 'every', and 'always' is a 'lie'. Shall we delete them from the
- language, or shall we instead assume that people are going to
- understand the language as it is typically used?
-
- Hell, MS-DOS won't run all does programs. MS-Windows certainly won't
- run all Windows programs (OSWin runs more of them than MS-Windows
- does). Let's force them to change the name of the products, since
- using those names implies that they will run those programs AND THEY
- DON'T.
-
-
- --
- "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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