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From: dagbrown@undergrad.math.uwaterloo.ca (Dave Brown)
Subject: Re: Linux thoroughly insulted by Infoworld!
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Date: Mon, 13 Feb 1995 19:11:23 GMT
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In article <3hhkm7$mmi@umbc8.umbc.edu>, R. D. Davis <rdavis4@umbc.edu> wrote:
>In article <3hh5qc$6k8@blackice.winternet.com>,
>Jeff Dege <jdege@winternet.com> wrote:
>
>>    I've got one of those 351 Clevelands, in the '79 Econoline I bought
>>a few months back when my '86 Escort blew a head-gasket.  230,000 miles,
>>rusted to hell, starts easier and drivers smoother than the Escort did
> ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
>But this didn't happen within 3 or 4 years as happens with many
>Japanese cars... it most likely took much longer to happen.

Funny, my parents just sold their '85 Honda Civic--it hadn't a speck of
rust.  This in northern Saskatchewan, where vast quantities of salt on
the roads is a way of life.  Like to see that with a '85 Ford Escort.

--Dave
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