From: stop AT spam DOT now (Gilberto Gaudencio)
Newsgroups: comp.programming,rec.games.programmer,comp.os.msdos.djgpp
Subject: Re: Do you want to learn C?
Date: Thu, 23 Apr 1998 15:22:48 GMT
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mwood AT indyvax DOT iupui DOT edu (Mark H. Wood) wrote:

>In article <985481383D11CAA1 DOT D29CB19C4451CC33 DOT 7F1F44A41F5DCD1A AT library-proxy DOT airnews DOT net>, sjanssens AT fasainteractive DOT com (Scott Janssens) writes:
>> On Sat, 11 Apr 1998 22:00:23 -0400, Edward Sanville
>> <edwards AT cisunix DOT unh DOT edu> wrote:
>> 
>>>OH....MY....GOD!!!  Having heart attack....can't breathe......  AHAHAHHHHH!HH!HH!!!
>>>I can't believe it!!!!  Windows, in ALL its incarnations, DOES CRASH ALL THE
>>>TIME!!!!  You can't deny that!!!  You just CAN'T deny that!!!  Give us THAT much!
>
>Actually the discrepancy in various Windows users' experiences has recently
>been explained.  Windows is perfectly stable as long as all your applications
>come from Microsoft.  If you install any third-party software, it's
>crash-o-matic time.

Wrong. I have here 16 Win95 PCs, with nothing but Office97 installed,
and all it takes to kill Win95 (blue screen -> blank screen -> reboot)
in any of them is printing a slightly more complicated Word document
(i.e. more than 2 pages).
I'm seriously considering installing DOS and Wordperfect instead. :)


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