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From: root@wndrsvr.la.ca.us (Master of Wonder)
Subject: Re: Linux thoroughly insulted by Infoworld!
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Date: Fri, 10 Feb 1995 18:18:26 GMT
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Jonathan Badger (badger@phylo.life.uiuc.edu) wrote:
: Coolness Incarnate <coolness@crh0083.urh.uiuc.edu> writes:

: >I keep seeing people stand up for the Lada, doesn't anyone care about the 
: >Thunderbird?  Granted today they are just huge family cars, but they once 
: >were cool cars.  (No parallels to DOS please.)  DOS isn't really that 
: >bad.  I run LINUX almost exclusively when I'm at school, but if I didn't 
: >have an a free ethernet connection, I wouldn't run it, for the simple 
: >reason, NO APPS.

: Um... I think this whole car thread is a misunderstanding. The
: original poster was comparing DOS to Thunderbird, not
: Thunderbirds. Thunderbird, if you don't know, is a fortified wine
: favored by alcoholics, due to its cheap price.

Yes but not nearly as (*cough*) good as NightTrain.  Hic :)  Goodnight!