Re: [tlug] Re: [OT] Say _no_ to the Microsoft Office format as an ISO standard

["Jedidiah Israel" <jedidiah.israel@example.com>]

On 7/8/07, burlingk@example.com <burlingk@example.com> wrote:
> That brings us to another issue.  When Windows 3.1, and 3.11
> came out, the cost of a Unix license was insane.  Why pay several
> hundred dollars for an unfriendly, hard to understand operating
> system, when for sixty bucks you can have one that has an easy to
> Use, point and click interface that makes it hard for you to do any
> permanent damage to your machine.  Yeah, they made some mistakes
> when they made the move to Windows 95. :P

Single user, single tasking (DOS) vs. multi-user, multitasking (UNIX)
vs. single user, multitasking (Win95). Hmm, seems like apples and
oranges to me. ;-)