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To: Harry Sharp who wrote (34539)	11/21/1999 11:33:00 AM
From: taxman	Respond to of 74651

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To: Harry Sharp who wrote (34539)	11/21/1999 11:33:00 AM
From: taxman	Respond to of 74651

president clinton: from phone sex to internet sex. nytimes.com regards

To: Harry Sharp who wrote (34539)	11/21/1999 1:22:00 PM
From: The Duke of URL©	Respond to of 74651

>>Microsoft stood alone with Windows against the big players of the day and won. Lets hope they can do it again. << This is sort of my remembrance, it was about 1991 thru to the end or about 1995. The issue was "Task Switching", the ability to load a second program without getting back to the dos prompt. WordPerfect's solution was called "Shell" and you could easily load the exe for about 10 different programs and the shell would put one away and load the next one for you. It took about 2 minutes on an 8088. Topview was IBMs implementation for the same service. Windows 95, released when?, middle of 1995 had this AND it was faster because it utilized the 16! MB cache and upper dos memory of the 386. AND it had some common printer fonts, and rudimentary wyswig. There were at least 20 other products, I believe Norton had one. That was when WordPerfect decided they would not use windows and sought to develop their own front end as did IBM and Lotus and ... well, you get the drift Just how many different "common user interfaces" can you have. :)) This may have pissed off WordPerfect etc. But just how upset do you think SUNW is with their REAL enemy, Windows2000. Its Deja Vu all over again, as Yogi would say. A little trip down memory lane. Whoops, EOR.* Duke *End Of Rant.