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From: ekrimen@ecst.csuchico.edu (Ed Krimen)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.advocacy
Subject: Re: NeXT/Amiga Flamage: Get a life.
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Date: 16 Apr 91 18:22:27 GMT
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In article <1046@stewart.UUCP> jerry@stewart.UUCP (Jerry Shekhel) writes:
>melling@cs.psu.edu (Michael D Mellinger) writes:
>>   plus it allows multitasking or single tasking. And all Microsoft can come
>>   up with is Mr Elephant, Windows 3.0.
>>
>>Everyone knows Windows 3.0 is a joke.
>>
>
>Everyone knows Windows 3 is a joke?  You must have ESP to know what's
>on everyone's mind.  Next time, please speak for yourself.  If you were
>at all informed, you'd know that Windows has to do a lot more than PC-GEOS.

All right.  Everyone but you knows Windows 3.0 is a joke. ;^)

>>
>>But IBM'ers will do what ever
>>it takes to get a Macinstosh w/o actually buying a Macintosh.
>>
>
>My, aren't we pretending to be the All-Knowing today!  By the way, we have
>the latest beta of MacOS 7.0 in-house.  It looks nice, and I'd say it's
>pretty close to Windows in terms of functionality....

...and speed.  Comp.sys.mac.system says it's slow.

> And guess what -- when
>I pull down "About This Macintosh", the reported memory usage for the
>system software is 2100K! 

Oh boy.  That just gives me goose bumps all over. :^)

>
>>
>>-Mike
>>
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