On Nov 6, 7:05 am, Steve Townsend <st_delme...@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> AZ Nomad <aznoma...@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:
> > On Thu, 06 Nov 2008 02:33:56 -0600, Terry Porter <linu...@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >>Hi All,
>
> >>Roy Schestowitz recently wrote the following on COLA :-
>
> >>"A lot of people keep dual-booting for many years until a generation of
> >>software 'fades' and the user conveniently goes GNU/Linux-only. I fall
> >>under this category as well."
>
> >>What Roy says was certainly very true in my case.
>
> >>I had installed Linux on my pc around 1995 - 1996 on a separate hard
> >>drive to my Windows 95 install, and I used to just turn off the PC and
> >>swap the IDE cable from one hard disk to the other, to switch between
> >>OSes.
>
> > I discovered back in the late 90's that dual booting invites microsoft OSs
> > to corrupt foreign partitions. My OS/2 install became far more stable when
> > I quit running windows 95.
>
> That is a complete fabrication. Do you have any proof? My company used
> dual boot for years and that never ever happened.
Did your company dual boot with Win 95? Sounds like that's what he's
talking about.
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