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On Thu, 15 Jan 1998 17:34:00 -0800 (PST), Steve Parker wrote: >On Thu, 15 Jan 1998, Paul Khoury wrote: > >> >FUD?!?!? FUD?!?!? That was unkind! ;-) >> What does FUD mean anyways? > > Fear, Unceartainty, Doubt. Often related to something like Microsoft >announcing that they writing a new package years before it ships to >confuse the market and keep them from buying a competitors [probably >superior] product in the meantime. They will also announce a huge and >rich feature set only to throw out half of it before it ships. In the >meantime it allows the vaporware product to take marketshare away from >competitors who can't really compete against something that doesn't exist >yet. > > Does the ~2 years of hype before Win95 shipped ring a bell? How about >the ~2 years it'll take from the time of announcement before Win97, oh >wait, I mean Win98 ships? > Actually, after I suffered from the lies about this multitasking crap that Windows 3.x/95 promises, I told myself I'd never return, and all this Windows 95 stuff hasn't been too siginifcant to me anyways. None of my computers run a M$-O$! :-) -- Paul =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= Paul Khoury pkhoury@loop.com =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= Proudly using OS/2 Warp 3 & 4 Donate your idle CPU time to a needy cause. Join Team Warped and help to crack RC5-64! Check out http://www.ionet.net/~colin/rc5.html for more information. The Operating System/2 Version is 4.00 Revision 9.029 There are 28 Processes with 100 Threads. This machine's uptime is 1d 16h 2m 42s 7ms.