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- From: jmalloy@itsmail1.hamilton.edu (Joseph T. Malloy)
- Subject: Re: OS/2 bigot and NT
- Message-ID: <1993Jan1.164345.16936@itsmail1.hamilton.edu>
- Organization: Hamilton College - Clinton, NY
- References: <1993Jan1.101024.27080@actrix.gen.nz>
- Date: Fri, 1 Jan 1993 16:43:45 GMT
- Lines: 40
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- In article <1993Jan1.101024.27080@actrix.gen.nz> Steve.Withers@bbs.actrix.gen.nz writes:
- >
- >OK. I tried to boot the now infamous NT-bearing hard disk on my 386DX/40
- >with 16megs of RAM.
- >
- >It won't start.
- >
- >It must have been so corrupted from all those crashes the other day
- >that now I must re-install it.
- >
- >OR......does it not like the AMD 386 CPU? Anyone know if MS and Intel
- >have "fixed" NT so that it doesn't work with AMD CPU's?
- >I know MS has knobbled NT so that it won't install with OS/2 (though
- >there is an easy work-around), so the idea isn't all that far-fetched.
- >
- >Any comments? Stuffed disk? or more crippled software from MS?
- >
- >Steve
- >
- Well, yeah, it's crippled, I'm sure. It's part of the Microsoft Evil
- Plan for Total World Domination(TM) (also known as "Domination at your
- Fingertips"(SM)) -- there's a hallucinogen that's released whenever you
- try to boot NT; NT doesn't actually work (it's really OS/2 is disguise,
- hence all your problems), but the drug usually makes users think they're
- onto something New and Improved! They're calling this their new "Drug
- and Drop Technology"(R).
-
- I think Microsoft has a great future in releasing crippled software!
- Look how far it's gotten IBM!
-
- Hey, it just occurs to me that IBM's stock hasn't really tumbled into
- the pits, it's just more of the Microsoft Marketing Magic(SM) at work!
-
- [Note for the humor-impaired: note the impaired humor.]
-
- Joseph Malloy
- German Department
- Hamilton College
- Clinton, New York
-
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