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On Fri, 26 Sep 1997, Drew Derbyshire wrote:

> Terry Lambert wrote:
> > As I said in my other message, it's probably intentional to keep down
> > support calls, since MS OS's (other than DOS) can't safely run binaries
> > or swap from removable media.
> 
> VM/370 could.  :-)
> (Showing my age today ...)

No kidding. VM/370 is not, and never was a Microsoft OS. Alzheimers, is it? :-)

cjs

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