Subj : NEW IN OS/2 IS IN THE READ* FILES
To   : Jim Rysyk
From : Scott Little
Date : Sun Jun 25 2000 02:01 am

 [ 23 Jun 00 13:37, Jim Rysyk wrote to Scott Little ]

 >> how do you figure? Win9x brought relative stability, a
 >> comprehensive API, preemptive multitasking and 32bit-ness to the
 >> party. NT used to be OS/2 so if it's a fixpak on Windows 286, so is
 >> OS/2.
 JR> How do you figure that?

read what I said.

 >> which bugs are these specifically?
 JR> Well, have you received a few e-Mails latley?  Have you noticed the
 JR> talk of worms and e-Mail problems and Microsoft OS latley?

yes.

bug: 1) creepy thing in among the circuitry.
     2) piece of code that doesn't work like it's supposed to.

I still don't see any bug being exploited.

 JR> Ya, those bugs, and more not yet mentioned on the various news media
 JR> these last two months.

they aren't bugs.

 >>JR> If MS and others have known about some or many of these bugs
 >>JR> introduced to networked systems security introduced in MS-DOS
 >>JR> 3.2,
 >> MS-DOS doesn't have any network capability, any bugs relating to
 >> networking on MS-DOS are because of the client software, not the
 >> OS.
 JR> Ya, ya ya.  If you say so.  I know Microsoft says so.

are you insane?

 JR> I know in other OS and networks, the server decided what the client
 JR> can, and can not do.  The client has no say.

and again.

 JR> Their are many other browsers, and navigators that run on muti
 JR> platformes and are not part of and were never part of any operating

IE isn't part of the OS, it's part of the shell. Same can be seen with KDE for 
Linux.

 JR> system.  Plus the are able to run on micky softs windoz.  Thus, billy

and they are either not free (Opera), or suck (Netscape), or suck realllly bad 
(Mozilla) or just aren't suitable (Lynx).

 JR> ngates is full of it, and allways has been.

yep. your point?

 JR> I don't recall reading it needed an OS.  I recall reading, a lot of
 JR> new hardware will not require an OS.

WTF do you think JavaOS is? insanity again.

 JR> Bill Gates solution or version is, that it requires a Bill Gates OS
 JR> and solution.

of course. your point?

 JR> promoting the Mellenium Edition, and to drum it into our thick
 JR> sculls.

I will never buy ME. I doubt I'd ever use it. NT (inc. W2K) for me.

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