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To: Greg Jung who wrote (776)	4/22/1998 11:29:00 PM
From: Robert Winchell	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1600

I think we see evidence of this big brother phenomenon on this thread, where Winchell the diehard Microsoft defender, posting from near Palo Alto, comprises almost 7% (6.944% until this post) of the posts, since his SI membership this board is his only interest. Quite amusing how echoed lines have crowded out all semblance of a discussion Right, Palo Alto. I guess Boston is near Palo Alto. Are you trying to look clever? Because that sort of backfired there, chief. This is in fact the only board I post to, mostly because I find it interesting and quite entertaining. Has it been discussed here why a DOS box still cannot host a decent telnet session? Why on earth would you run a telnet session in a DOS box? There are myriad Telnet applications for Windows that are excellent. If you want a reference to one, just ask. The rest of your post seems to be some sort of stream of consciousness, Naked Lunch type rambling.

To: Greg Jung who wrote (776)	4/24/1998 5:21:00 AM
From: rudedog	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 1600

greg - agree not just on telnet but the whole host of unix functionality and systems administration. Now that CPQ is buying DEC, we might see a mfg with real volume and good connections to MSFT who also has a reason to push Unix. question for you - if CPQ developed a version of Unix which had strong internal linkages with NT (say at the API support level) and also preserved the benefits of Unix, would this tend to draw Unix fans more into the NT world, or would it create an opening for wintel users to move more into an environment which had a larger proportion of Unix machines in the mix? Do you think CPQ / DEC could even pull this off?