Date: Thu, 20 Mar 1997 10:16:26 -0500 (EST)
From: "Mike A. Harris" <mharris AT blackwidow DOT saultc DOT on DOT ca>
Reply-To: "Mike A. Harris" <mharris AT blackwidow DOT saultc DOT on DOT ca>
To: Paul W Brannan <brannanp AT musc DOT edu>
cc: Scott Bolander <meee AT denmark-c DOT it DOT earthlink DOT net>,
        OpenDOS <opendos AT mail DOT tacoma DOT net>
Subject: Re: [opendos] Why a Newsgroup?
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On Wed, 19 Mar 1997, Paul W Brannan wrote:

> > Well the only reason that I can see someone bashing Micro$loth is
> > because they suck.  Other than that, and the fact that their
> > programs are inferior and crash almost non-stop they really
> > aren't that bad of a company.
> 
> Let's get the facts straight.  If you use ONLY ms products, you will do
> fine.

WHO in there right mind would ONLY use MS products!?!?!??!  That
is blasphemic!  Lets REALLY get the facts straight.  :o)


> But if you, say, run WordPerfect or Quattro Pro (as I do), then you
> are going to have crashes.

If you install windows, and don't install ANY external software
at all, just use the stuff that it comes with, YOU STILL GET
CRASHES!  Hence my statements about M$ sucking.

> If you run Netscape on ANY platform, you will have crashes.

Not on Linux.  Netscape crashes *ITSELF* on Linux, but it doesn't
effect ANY other running programs period.  Netscape nonetheless
does crash on any platform, just not necessarily the OS.

> The problem is that a lot of programs don't follow the
> rules.  I've found that Word crashes a lot less than WP, but it doesn't
> let me do certain things (like how do you get rid of the figure number,
> and how do you turn all those automatic things off when Word ignores your
> setup, etc.)

What are the rules?  Are you saying that a program that follows
the rules can't crash Windows?  I've seen many programs crash
windows that were "following the rules".  The problem is that
Windows has internal bugs and that applications can't always
anticipate this (nor is it their job to).  Therefore:

If you need a stable OS that doesn't crash, use Linux.
If you need an OS with all of the latest software comeons use
Win95/NT.  If you don't need the latest software, and don't need
the complexity of Linux, use DOS or OS/2.  If you are a total
whacko that loves self abuse and torture use VMS.  :o)

 

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