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From: Terry Lambert <tlambert@primenet.com>
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Subject: Re: ftpd bug in FreeBSD through at least 3.4
To: nate@yogotech.com
Date: Mon, 2 Oct 2000 21:48:26 +0000 (GMT)
Cc: JHowie@msn.com (John Howie),
	phk@critter.freebsd.dk (Poul-Henning Kamp),
	brett@lariat.org (Brett Glass), chat@FreeBSD.ORG
In-Reply-To: <200010022000.OAA18288@nomad.yogotech.com> from "Nate Williams" at Oct 02, 2000 02:00:17 PM
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> [ Moved to -chat ]
> Really?  Explain to me how Win95/NT 'supports' it's easier with day-day
> bugfixes in a manner that's better than FreeBSD?

I wish my Vaio's winmodem worked on FreeBSD.  Same for the
sound card, and don't get me started on DVD playback support.


> However, back to the issue at hand.  Microsoft doesn't support old OS's
> like Win95 and NT3.5/4.0.  Heck, support for Win98 just ended with the
> release of WinME.

If you buy a new machine with an old OS, it's supported by
Microsoft for 90 days from date of purchse, so long as the
vendor has a contract with Microsoft.

					Terry Lambert
					terry@lambert.org
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