Date: Sun, 21 Nov 1999 16:25:56 -0700 From: Brett Glass <brett@lariat.org> To: "David Schwartz" <davids@webmaster.com>, "Jonathon McKitrick" <jcm@dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org> Cc: <freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: RE: Judge: "Gates Was Main Culprit" Message-ID: <4.2.0.58.19991121161740.04723a90@localhost> In-Reply-To: <001001bf3463$4661e290$021d85d1@youwant.to> References: <4.2.0.58.19991120202859.0452b930@localhost>
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At 12:59 PM 11/21/1999 -0800, David Schwartz wrote: > Windows 98's disk compression is better than Stac's. Stac doesn't do disk compression for Windows 98, so the above is absurd. However, Stacker -- when it was made -- beat the pants off of DoubleSpace, especially as far as reliability was concerned. DoubleSpace was known to corrupt users' disks, as Microsoft ultimately admitted. >Windows 98's memory management is better than Quaterdeck's. Again, a disingenuous comparison. QEMM did not do the same sort of memory management as Windows 98. Microsoft's EMM386 -- the correct program to which one should compare QEMM -- was markedly inferior, and supplanted QEMM only because it was free. Microsoft likewise bundled Helix's optimizer for free so as to kill Quarterdeck's best-selling product and thus prevent DESQview and DESQview/X from ever challenging Windows. >IE is a better browser than Netscape's Not so, especially from a security standpoint. IE is riddled with DANGEROUS security problems. Alas, Netscape was shut down by Microsoft's predatory tactics. The shell of the company was bought by AOL, primarily for its portal and peripherally so that AOL could avoid total dependence on Microsoft's browser by keeping Navigator barely alive. One can only wonder how much Microsoft is paying you to spew such nonsense on this list. --Brett Glass To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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