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From: "Campbell, Rolf [SKY:1U32:EXCH]" <moscoop AT americasm01 DOT nt DOT com>
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.djgpp
Subject: Re: MICROSOFT has Bought Over Linus Torvalds!!
Date: Wed, 12 Apr 2000 12:43:52 -0400
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Jared Stevens wrote:

> On Fri, 07 Apr 2000, you wrote:
> > > Windows 95 is a massive pain to install... (almost harder + trickier than
> > > Linux) When I installed, for some strange reason, it didn't install CD-Rom
> > > drivers, and so when it 'boots windows for the first time' and is trying to
> > > install all of these drivers, my CDROM doesn't work, and I can't install
> > > anything. Also, if you have a 350 mhz processor or faster, windows wont boot at
> > > all until you update some files.
> > I've installed Win95 on a 400MHz machine without any 'updates'.
> That is really wierd... how old is the copy of windows you installed?

    I don't remember, but it was really a 333 Celeron running at 416MHz, if that makes
any difference.

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(\/) Rolf Campbell (\/)



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