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Original Usenet message from alt.ascii-art, 25 Sep 2001.
Re: Dead or alive...

Re: Dead or alive...

On Tue, 25 Sep 2001 02:44:14 -0000, anonymous@bogus_address.con tried to confuse
everyone with this message:

>
>On 2001-09-24 now...@nowhere.co.uk said:
>
>   >Why would you want to use DOS anyway? It's the worst OS there is.
>
>Not so.  DOS is a small, relatively efficient O.S. ...unlike
>that bloated pointee-clickee abomination.
>
>But more importantly, DOS allows the =user= to make the
>decisions about how he wants his machine to look, act and
>perform.  It's a much more 'down-to-the-metal' O.S., where
>the =user= is in control...not some megalomaniac in Redmond,
>Washington, U.S.A.
>
>Besides, DOS is ten times faster than WinDoze on any given
>machine.
>
>Plus, the DOS executable files for any productivity software
>programs are 20 to 50 times smaller than a comparable WinDoze
>program.  A 500 meg hard disk is =more= than sufficient for
>a DOS-based machine.  You simply don't need a mega-gigabyte
>drive.

Do you have Intel 80286 processor???
-- 
Grue <grue sobaka mail.ru>
Mike Throll comic strip at:
http://grue.freeservers.com
Bugsoft Perm at:
http://bugsoft.freeservers.com

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