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To: JC Jaros who wrote (951)	2/4/1999 5:39:00 PM
From: Thomas A Watson	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 2615

techcapital.com Investing in a Revolution It's been called the biggest techie cult to ever hit a hard drive. It's also been called the most serious threat to ever cross Microsoft's path. Any way it's spun, the freely distributed, Unix-clone operating system known as Linux has been grabbing headlines and turning heads. Not only are more and more software companies distributing compatible products, but a pair of big-name venture capitalists have stuck their tentative toes into the water Tom Watson tosiwme.

To: JC Jaros who wrote (951)	2/4/1999 7:41:00 PM
From: E. Charters	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 2615

I don't know why you wouldn't take me seriously. If it is a very good idea, it has to sound like it is better than normally achievable, therefore lacking in accepted sanity of expectation, which is the norm. My Prozac is the recuring crashes of my OSR1 non_upgradeable_or_patchable_except_at_a_price Win95 disappointment. Eventually people have to realize that what should have been multi tasking in 1984 should be replaced as obsolescent. OS-9 was multi tasking and it ran on a CO-CO Radio shack with 64K memory on a .789 MhZ 6809E chip. Ok, sell your rare hamster collection and your baseball cards and we will sell you some stock at the issure price. Someday the good guys will take hamburger hill. EC<:-}