Date:	Thu, 31 Jul 1997 10:49:17 -0400 (EDT)
From:	"Art S. Kagel" <kagel AT ns1 DOT bloomberg DOT com>
To:	Jason Dagit <thedagit AT mail DOT coos DOT or DOT us>
Cc:	djgpp AT delorie DOT com
Subject:	Re: DJGPP and Win95... a beginner
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On Wed, 30 Jul 1997, Jason Dagit wrote:

> From: Jason Dagit <thedagit AT mail DOT coos DOT or DOT us>
> To: Locke <lockeg AT usa DOT net>
> Subject: Re: DJGPP and Win95... a beginner
> 
> Locke wrote:
> 
> > Is there any way I can run a djgpp program in windows 95?
> 
> I realize that I am rambling but while I am at it...Has anyone with
> Win95 ever left it running all night, not doing anything.  I left Win95
> on several times through the night, monitor off, no screen saver, just
> sitting there doing nothing.  When I turn the monitor on in the morning
> it has crashed.  What happened to the systems that I hear stories of,
> that if they crashed twice in 6 months they had a team on it trying to
> figure out what was wrong with the system.  Yes I am refering to stories
> about mainframes, but why can't PC's have software that is even half as
> reliable as that?

PC's do have such software it is called Linux and Free BSD (AFAIK OpenDOS).
It is just that such software does not come out of MS.

Art S. Kagel, kagel AT bloomberg DOT com

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