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From: Dave Sharp <dave@ramlogic.demon.co.uk>
Subject: Re: M$ to STRIKE again...
Date: 1997/04/13
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In article <01bc4776$23c72ce0$22f482c1@xhv46.dial.pipex.com>, Nick
Roberts <Nick.Roberts@dial.pipex.com> writes
>
>
>Mark Wilden <Mark@mWilden.com> wrote in article
><01bc433c$e5109820$230228ce@default>...
>> > Apparently, Microsoft has decided that it is time for you to burn your
>> > bridges. Unlike previous versions of Windows 95, Windows 95 OEM Systems
>> > Release 2 (OSR2) does not allow dual-booting between it and Windows
>3.x.
>> 
>> Good! 
>
>
>Is this "good" as in "let's hope MS have shot themselves in the foot", or
>"good" as in "people who dual-boot are timewasters/fools/incompetent/*"?
>
>Nick.
>
>
>*insert your own favourite term of admonishment here
>PS: spot the zeugma
>
>
I can't see what this thresd has to do with a prolog group but perahps
someone should point out that if you develop systems for people in the
real world you have to write for the platform they use. Some of the
people I write for insist on still using windows 3.1, for that matter
some even still want dos applications. Therefore regardless of the MS
view of the future I have to retain all previous systems. I suspect
otheres have the same problems. Even if I never wrote another new system
for win 3.1 or dos I would still have an obligation to support systems I
have written in the past. 

                        Dave Sharp
BTW perhaps the nicest thing about Prolog is that most of the
development comes from the academic community and from commercial
developers who are in sympathy with what logic programmers are trying to
do. Long may MS and the like keep their hands off it. 
-- 
Dave Sharp