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["Adriano Ortile" md4929@xxxxxxxx]

Replay to note of Robert Holmgreen of 28/01/99

>> Unfortunately, this is the same goal Bill Gates has in mind for Windows:

>> make people completely slave, and unable to drive their computer.

> But the truly amazing thing is that there actually ARE people --
thoughtful
> people even -- who use it! I am often reminded, by this and many other
current
> events, of a moment in Istvan Svabo's amazing film _Mephisto_, when the
> protagonist (Klaus Maria Brandauer), on the day Hitler is elected
Chancellor, is
> visited by all his friends, who are packing their bags for Paris; and at
length he
> explodes and says something to the effect, "I'm German! Are all Germans
supposed
> to leave Germany? Elections, what's so important about elections, they
happen all
> the time!"

Robert,
If I correctly realized reading the list, you are using OS/2. I used it for
few days some years ago (at the time of Windows 3.1), but it did not
excited me. At that time, it required a lot of memory to work (8MB vs 2MB
of Windows) and it appeared to me not to be faster; instead, it was
crashing more frequently than Windows and was not able to run many Windows
programs. Any way, I agree with you that we should hope in a different
computer reality. XyWrite is (was?) one of these ways.
>
> Frankly, I'd pack my bags.
>
I admire your courage.

Adriano Ortile
ortile@xxxxxxxx