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- From: des@inmos.co.uk (David Shepherd)
- Subject: Re: FCC will proclaim Microsoft is run by Communists! : )
- Message-ID: <1993Jan6.135137.21866@wraxall.inmos.co.uk>
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- Date: Wed, 6 Jan 93 13:51:37 GMT
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- Jay Maynard (jmaynard@oac.hsc.uth.tmc.edu) wrote:
- : In article <1993Jan5.192014.6776@cs.brown.edu> atropos@netlab.cis.brown.edu (David O'Donnell) writes:
- : >If Microsoft is such a devil-incarnate, why doesn't some company produce an
- : >OS that runs adequately on a wide range of Intel-based CPUs and has features
- : >superior to MS-DOS? OS/2 Advocates, get serious; the world cannot afford to
- : >buy 486/33DXes with 16M of RAM and 250M hard drives just to get decent res-
- : >ponse.
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- : You must never have run it on lesser hardware, then; it ran fine for me on a
- : 386SX-16 with 8 meg RAM and two 40 meg hard disks.
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- you had 8 meg RAM ? you had it lucky, I only had 5 Meg RAM and it
- was acceptable.
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