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- From: jokim@jarthur.claremont.edu (John H. Kim)
- Subject: Re: Why does everybody hate microsoft
- Message-ID: <1992Aug27.213200.19418@muddcs.claremont.edu>
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- Organization: Harvey Mudd College, Claremont, CA 91711
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- Date: Thu, 27 Aug 1992 21:32:00 GMT
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- fwbent@watmsg.uwaterloo.ca (Fred Bent) writes:
-
- >In article <1684F14DEC.S947460@UMSLVMA.UMSL.EDU> S947460@UMSLVMA.UMSL.EDU (Andrew Zaitsev) writes:
- >>
- >>It looks like mechanisms of changing the historical documents described
- >>by George Orwell in "1984" would be very useful for Microsoft.
-
- >I cannot see anything that Bill Gates said (that you quoted) that is
- >inaccurate or misleading....
-
- Well, I have the OS/2 Notebook by Microsoft Press. Here are some
- Bill Gates quotes:
-
- "Another strong message is the high level of commitment that our
- companies [IBM and Microsoft] have to OS/2 ..."
-
- "Microsoft has not changed any of its plans for Windows. It is
- obvious that we will not include things like threads and preemptive
- multitasking in Windows. By the time we added that, you would
- have OS/2."
-
- "Most users of high-end applications will be using a 386 and therefore
- want OS/2 2.0"
-
- In all fairness, B. Gates did hint pretty strongly that MS's support for
- OS/2 was dependent on how well it sold.
- --
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