From: "Weiqi Gao" <weiqigao AT crl DOT com>
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.djgpp
Subject: Re: OpenDOS
Date: 30 Jan 1997 06:42:12 GMT
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Daniel P Hudson <afn03257 AT freenet2 DOT afn DOT org> wrote in article
<5cp82j$f1v AT huron DOT eel DOT ufl DOT edu>...
> 
>Your smoking the wrong end of the cigarette there man.
>[......]
>I think you've been listening to the ANTI-MS KOOKS too long.
>[......]
>I got news for ya, Linux trashed my Dos partition 3 times, so would
>that mean GNU is implementing secret espionage like code in Linux?
>Get a grip! Every little screw-up that happens is not an MS plot to 
>take over the world. Bugs happen, and while its easy to blame MS for 
>them, the truth is IBM's first release of OS/2 was pure shit and not
>worth it weight in dirt. V2 is when OS/2 became a real OS with
>potential, and then IBM screwed up by not advertising. Then v3,
>and a little advertising, still no take off, its too late now,
>the next OS/2 will support WIN 95 and MS will stop supporting WIN 95  
>and start pushing WIN NT, watch it. However, rumor has it, I know some 
>employees at IBM in Boca [just a 4 hour drive from me] that IBM may
>already be able to predict MS's next move and beat em' to the punch.
>We shall see. ;-)

Let's not talk about Microsoft vs. IBM, or OS/2 vs. Windows vs. Windows 95
vs. Windows NT, or what is pure shit (my number one vote for pure shit goes
to Windows 1.0).  We are trying to work with DOS, mind you.  And the
software we discuss here works pretty darn good.

Think about it, when is the last time anything crashed BY ITSELF?

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Weiqi Gao
weiqigao AT crl DOT com