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Date: Thu, 24 Jul 1997 19:38:52 -0400
From: "Larry S. Marso" <lsmarso@panix.com>
To: Pedro Giffuni <pgiffuni@fps.biblos.unal.edu.co>, freebsd-chat@freebsd.org
Subject: Re: bloated operating systems
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On Thu, Jul 24, 1997 at 05:31:32PM -0700, Pedro Giffuni wrote:
> John Fieber wrote:
> > 
> > This microsoft quote from an infoworld article caught my eye:
> > 
> >  "We have no intention of shipping another bloated OS and shoving
> >   it down the throats of our users," Maritz said regarding the concept
> >   of delivering JFCs on top of the Windows operating system.
> > 
> ....
> > -john
> 
> Translated, this means:
> "OS2 is just ANOTHER bloated OS because they include Java; to be THE
> REALLY bloated OS you need ActiveX," Maritz meant to say.
> 
> 	Pedro.

OS/2?