<div dir="ltr">I reckon we'll find out if "most people" is enough to get Mr. Trump elected. <div><br></div><div>Be Very Scared.</div><div><br></div><div>-- CHS</div><div><br></div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Dec 10, 2015 at 10:50 AM, DjPfulio <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:DjPfulio@jdpfu.com" target="_blank">DjPfulio@jdpfu.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div lang="EN-US" link="blue" vlink="purple">But most people don't know these facts. To them, Bill Gates created the PC and Bill Gates created the Internet.<br>
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I believe Windows beat oS/2 because the hardware requirements for Windows were much lighter than those required for os/2. <br>
Don't forget that Windows was not popular until version 3.0 and os/2 was not useful until version 2.1.<div><div class="h5"><br>
<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On 10 December 2015 09:31:22 GMT-05:00, "Lightner, Jeff" <<a href="mailto:JLightner@dsservices.com" target="_blank">JLightner@dsservices.com</a>> wrote:<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1f497d">Bill didn’t “invent” anything including DOS or Windows. He bought DOS from someone else to resell to IBM. Windows was the result of IBM and Microsoft starting
a project to do GUI to compete with Apple (who also didn’t invent GUI – Xerox did). IBM and Microsoft had a parting of the ways with lawsuits and recriminations but the end results were IBM did OS/2 and MS did Windows. Since Windows like DOS ran on multiple
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1f497d">Maybe Bill would be a good candidate at that – for years people have said IE stands for Internet Exploder. :-)</span></p><p></p><p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Keep in mind that, for a lot of people, Bill invented computers. Their first (only?) computer experience is with Windows. Bill invented Windows. Ergo, Bill invented computers.
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<p>Donald Trump thinks he can call Bill Gates to "close up" the internet <a href="http://www.theverge.com/2015/12/7/9869308/donald-trump-close-up-the-internet-bill-gates" target="_blank">
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