Re: OS/2 & Cyrix

[Harmon Seaver hseaver@xxxxxxxx]

Peter Evans wrote:
 I'm not competent but inexperienced. And "obviously" so? Isn't there
                      ^^^^^^^^^
   See below.

> Whatever Novell is, it's not Windoze. (And since my computer doesn't

   It's not? Guess again. Novell is the manufacturer, it's a windoz
app, all the way.

> exaggerated. I've never heard of a program I was interested in that took
> hours to get working. For all I know, something of the complexity of
> Oracle may take that long--but I've no need for such a program.
>

  Why is it only what *you* have interest in? We're talking about
installing windoz apps vs. installing unix apps -- I'm sure you have no
interest in any of the unix apps either, so why did you bring it up?

> do believe that they exist--but also that the risk is exaggerated for
> commercial or journalistic purposes. (Ignoring or deleting

  Try running a university computer lab once, you'll find plenty viri.
We format every HD of every public computer once a week -- plus run
F-Prot every day.

> Well, good. But it would be absurd if they didn't--after all, that machine
> sounds more expensive than any Wintel machine I've ever seen.
>

  About $25,000.



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