Re: TI-H: Off Topic, Windows 95 trivia

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Subject: Re: TI-H: Off Topic, Windows 95 trivia
From: Grant Stockly <gussie@alaska.net>
Date: Wed, 30 Dec 1998 11:40:00 -0900
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>Happens all the time, not sure why people find it so significate
>that Microsoft used an interface similar to Apples (which was
>similar to Xeroxs, as some will point out).  Companies are always
>building on ideas from other companies, there is nothing wrong
>with it, and it doesn't say much about the quality of either
>product.  Ford was the first to make decent cars most people
>could afford, that doesn't make a Chevy (Honda, Saturn, etc)
>any less good.

You might not have heard, but microsoft had to recall thousands of copies
of Win95 beta and 3.1 because they used direct quicktime code verbatim.

>Anybody have any opinions on BeOS?  Looks like it could be
>a competitor for part of MSs market soon, along with Linux
>in a couple of years.  Does BeOS have a good JVM yet?

BeOS and an intel is gay.  The intel doesn't even have network support yet.
Its also like the MacOS.  Its does word processing but is strengths are dp.

I also think Linux on an N64 is gay.

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Re: TI-H: Off Topic, Windows 95 trivia

From: "David Knaack" <dknaack@hotmail.com>