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- From: johnm@cajal.uoregon.edu (John Martin)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc
- Subject: Re: why does everybody hate microsoft?
- Keywords: n
- Message-ID: <1992Aug27.221152.2372@nntp.uoregon.edu>
- Date: 27 Aug 92 22:11:52 GMT
- References: <1992Aug26.133221.25721@rz.uni-karlsruhe.de> <1992Aug27.114422.19944@actrix.gen.nz> <92240.124636REE700A@MAINE.MAINE.EDU>
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- Organization: Institute of Neuroscience, University of Oregon
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- In article <92240.124636REE700A@MAINE.MAINE.EDU>, REE700A@MAINE.MAINE.EDU writes:
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- >
- > Among the dozens of other excellent reasons given, who could love a
- >company that has monopolized the PC world with trash and whose only
- >decent program is Word (for the Macintosh!!!). Finally, Word for Windows
- >2 is a decent port of Word Mac - but it runs under windows, which is
-
- Correct me if I'm wrong, but wasn't Word written originally for DOS, then
- ported to the Mac -- in which case is the Wonders (ahem... Windows) version
- really a port from DOS?? And from what I have heard from people fluent
- in both Word and WordPerfect, WP is the better of the two (I wouldn't know
- firsthand, so don't flame me! Please!!)
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- John Martin johnm@cajal.uoregon.edu
- Institute of Neuroscience, University of Oregon, Eugene, OR, 97402
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