From: slumos AT nevada DOT edu (STEVE LUMOS )
Subject: Re: Advice!
5 Apr 1997 18:21:18 -0800
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>Nope, I wouldn't switch.
>
>Aside from my obvious bias, working for Microsoft, there is no way you
>could offer such an OS.  Heck, nobody can make an OS that's 100%
>compatible with the last version of the same OS.  There is no way a
>third party could build such a thing from the ground up.  So one reason
>I wouldn't switch is because I wouldn't believe the claims that it
>exists.

Because Microsoft can't do it doesn't mean that nobody can.  In fact,
many others have done it.

Steve
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