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Re: Roy on Comes: Ballmer's Crime of Using "Bad App" to Crash Rival O/S

On 2009-06-18, Chris Ahlstrom <ahlstromc@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> claimed:
> After takin' a swig o' grog, Peter belched out
>   this bit o' wisdom:
>
>> Roy Schestowitz wrote:
>>>  Snip
>>>     To: cameronm
>>>     Subject: Seybold report on office computing
>>>     Date: Wed Apr 29 19:11:02 PDT 1992
>>> 
>>>     It praises Os/2 2.0 endlessly using the charts from the IBM
>>>     white papers. For example the chart showing windows giving you
>>>     only 506k of memory and Os/2 giving you 620k.
>>
>> Very interesting article on Os/2 2.0 !
>> My experiences with Os/2 were not good but what were yours ?
>
> OS/2 was a pro OS, while Windows at that time was a single-tasking toy.

Whereas now Windows is a toy that you'd be advised to not do more than
a couple of things on it at a time. And save what're you're doing
frequently.

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