[Am-info] Re: IBM - AIX - SCO - FUD.

[Marcus de Geus]

In reply to a message from "felmon davis" <davisf@union.edu> dated
2003-06-25 21:24:58 -0400 (Wed):

Felmon,

> > BTW: no flames please. I am still going for an entry in the
> > Guinness Book of Records as The Computer User Who Has Never Owned a
> > Windows Box. My desktop OS is not Linux, nor am I running an Apple
> > (yet?), and my CP/M and PC-DOS/DesqView days are long past. You can
> > work out the rest for yourselves.
>
> when you buy a computer off the shelf, don't they have windows on
> them?

Nope. I once owned a (80286) PC that came with a box of 4.25" diskettes for
Windows 1.?, but I never installed it (and I must admit that I didn't even
know what it was at the time, or I would have buried it in concrete ten feet
deep, of course). My (TP 600E, discontinued, discount) laptop would have
come with Windows 98 on it, but I had the supplier reformat the HDD, so by
the time I got it, it was clean -- no, tell a lie, it had eCS on it. All my
other systems I bought either clean, or built myself.

> if that doesn't count, can I sneak in too? I just bought a Compaq off
> he shelf and ran XP for a couple of weeks but then put in an extra HD
> and boot to Linux.

No, sorry, but we'll put you on the "honourable mentions" list, OK?

> or am I sullied by having run XP for several weeks?

Of course you are, but you have just compensated for it by showing
exceptional courage in the face of extreme danger by admitting the fact on
this list.

> I started out with DOS, then 4DOS and Desqview. I loved Desqview! I
> then went to OS/2 and Linux.

I started out with CP/M, then DOS, added 4DOS, tried DesqView and hated it,
but that was because I never got it to work the way it should, then switched
to OS/2 2.1/4OS2 in 1993. I now have two desktop machines running Warp 4,
the eCS (1.0, soon to be 1.1) laptop. Oh, and there is a LAN server (a
Cobalt Qube 2, love it) running some form of Linux. I forget which, but it
works, and that's the main thing.

Best regards,

Marcus de Geus
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