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  From: Daryl Pilkington <u3232@home.dialix.com>
  To  : michael <michael@home.lyppard.com.au>
  Date: Tue, 24 Apr 2001 20:24:44 +1000

Re: MS Curriculum at schools and TAFEs ...

Hi Michael,
Sorry, don't have access to 3 <18 boys, the guys at my place are both
24, non-computer nerds & don't have any difficulty printing, logon,
Web-surfing either.

One of the guys, *has* to use the OS/2 box because his own, (networked),
Windoze box doesn't do Internet Banking using Opera & JVM 1.3.

They all whinge about the lack of Bleeding-edge multimedia support on
the OS/2 boxes, like RealPlayer 8, Flash 5, but all the important stuff
works:- network printing, Web-Surfing, Reading Uni Lecture notes in PDF,
scanning, faxing, Internet Banking.

I might make a RIPLed Win98 box just for playing games...

Oh, the OS/2 box is a mere P100/64MB/1GB SCSI IBM 310 Server with a fax
server & HP 4p SCSI scanner hanging off it. Tonight I'll install the
OS/2 port of CDRECORD/2 onto it.

Maybe I'll upgrade to EcomStation, (OS/2 4.5), with the journalling file
system...

michael wrote:
> 
> Hi.
> 
> Hmm. Did you try a double blind test using 3 <18 boys?
> 
> Michael :)
> 
> On Tue, 24 Apr 2001, Daryl Pilkington wrote:
> 
> > G'day from the Coat-Hanger City,
> >
> > I've got 3 <18 girls staying at my place at the moment & when they sat
> > down at my OS/2 boxes to check their email, they thought they were Macs.
SNIP
>
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