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- From: mmtl@hobson.cc.flinders.edu.au (T.Lampre)
- Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.advocacy
- Subject: Re: Rest In Peace MicroSoft
- Keywords: MicroSoft, Operating Systems
- Message-ID: <1992Aug18.064622.14057@frodo.cc.flinders.edu.au>
- Date: 18 Aug 92 06:46:22 GMT
- References: <1992Aug14.091301.3969@microsoft.com> <1992Aug15.163726.13675@fics.uucp> <1992Aug15.175348.16872@ringer.cs.utsa.edu>
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- Organization: Flinders University
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- In article <1992Aug15.175348.16872@ringer.cs.utsa.edu> mlevis@ringer.cs.utsa.edu (Mike Levis) writes:
- >In article <1992Aug15.163726.13675@fics.uucp> ekl@fics.uucp writes:
- >>In article <1992Aug14.091301.3969@microsoft.com> petesk@microsoft.com (Pete Skelly) writes:
- >>>In article <1992Aug13.022737.17146@ccu.umanitoba.ca> rwalker@next02.cc.umanitoba.ca. (Robert Walker) writes:
- >>>>Bill Gates' nightmare is coming true. OS/2 is gainig momentum.
- >>> ^^^^^^
- >>>
- >>>I have a question, did you use the DOS version of PETE.EXE, or the
- >>>OS/2 Version ?
- >>>
- >>>petesk@microsoft.com
- >>>Just doing a marketing analysis on PETE.EXE ;)
- >>>
- >>
- >>There is an os/2 version available???? I though all support was dropped!
- >
- >There is a free clone of PETE.EXE called REPETE.EXE. It is a full
-
- This isn't GPETE is it? You know, the GNU version :-)
-
- >32-bit app for OS/2 2.0. It has a spell wrecker, a grammar mangler,
- >an arithmetic messer, and designed to handle some foreign languages
- >(detail unknown at this time :( ). I heard it was on a BBS somewhere.
- >Can someone download and ftp it to ftp-os2? Thanks in advance!
- >
- >>(Hmm... the error looks like one produced by earlier versions of PETE.EXE,
- >>maybe version 1.x, which runs under os/2)
- >>
- >>Eiryck
- >>
- >>Hey! Stop that! No pete.exe on my name, please...
- >>
- >>Eirik
- >
- >
- >--
- >==== Mike Levis mlevis@ringer.cs.utsa.edu ====
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