Re: UKNM: The End For NT? (Was AOL advertising)

[jim smith]

At 17:14 04/01/99 +0000, you wrote:

>At 08:39 AM 1/4/99 -0800, you wrote:

>

>---manoupostmaster [dot] co [dot] uk wrote:

>>>

>>> Dee; reload win 95 or 98 and dump whatever you have currently running.

>>

>>Reminds me of an old joke: I bought some software and it stated 'Use

>>Windows 95 or Better' - so I used a Mac instead. BOOM! BOOM!

>>

>>Seriously, in the studio I work out of we have switched away from

>>Windows 95 as an OS for doing anything useful with. Graphics and the

>>like are still done on the Mac (which is reasonably stable now it's

>>running OS 8) and all our servers are now or very soon will be running

>>FreeBSD or Linux. Windows 95 still lingers on laptops but as soon as

>>it is practical, they will be replaced with some form of Unix such as

>>Linux.

>

>

>ummm . . . don't you/didn't you work for IBM?

>

>do I sense a volte-face?


IBM has only just started migrating its everyday staff away from OS/2

*onto* Win95...but it's also working with RedHat on corporation-friendly

Linux, so it ain't really a volte-face.

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