Hmm... it looks like mail... mmmh, it tastes like mail... it _is_ mail!
Once upon a time (Thursday, May 15, 1997 to be precise), Marius Bendiksen
wrote
a letter to Flemming Sondergaard about "Creating my own OS"...
FS>> IMHO the PC is as good as dead. It's a completely chaotic system based
FS>> on an
MB> Then why do you respond to the 80xxx echo?
Because "as good as dead" is not the same as "dead".
FS>> outdated architecture. Surely, with computers like the PowerPC (and the
FS>> Amiga :), the PC can't have much of a future. Too many systems are
FS>> simply better than the PC.
MB> Go get one then, and stop buggering us about it.
I have one already. It's called a Commodore 64. And in a few months I'm
getting myself an Amiga. Perhaps then I'll leave you alone :). But until
then you'll have to live with me.
FS>> Besides, I think OS/2 is all the operating system the PC will ever
eed.
FS>> It has multitasking, crash protection - well, just about everything you
FS>> could ever want from an OS.
MB> Crash protection features in OS/2 Warp 3/3.5/4 aren't even close to NT's
MB> abilities.
I'd like to know how you compare them.
MB> Linux is more stable, too.
Does that mean I'm wrong in saying the PC doesn't need another OS? (Not that
I necessarily agree.)
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* Origin: I don't care if I'm a lemming, I'm not going! (2:237/45.15)
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