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  3. August 2007

Re: Absolutely Ridiculous

So run Linux. Or BSD. Or some other free operating system that handles multitasking properly.
Or buy a Mac.

You may not be able to run OS/2, but nothing is forcing you to run Windows. (Well, other than IBM, who seems to want to make absolutely sure that every System i person runs Windows -- but if you don't use this laptop for business, then you'll be just fine without it.)

Douglas Handy wrote:

I am in the process of changing from a single core Pentium 4 to a quad core
Q6700 and yet there are still times XP doesn't multitask well. Oh how I
wish OS/2 would have survived the marketing war...

Doug


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