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[John Masters]

On 11 Sep 2008, at 19:36, Karl Larsen wrote:

> Derek Broughton wrote:
>> Mark Haney wrote:
>>
>>
>>> Here's my take.  (and OPINION only)  I think that the majority of  
>>> Ubuntu
>>> users are from the Windows world.  Ubuntu is pretty good for getting
>>> n00bs on to linux.
>    If your over 50 years old, 100% of you are old Windows and/or DOS
> users. That was what was there before Linux. I enjoyed my old 1984  
> 100%
> Microsoft capable clone for many years with DOS on it. I recall in
> College about 5% of the students bought DOS and the other 95% borrowed
> from them. DOS was the original free operating system :-)
>
>    Since then they have spent big bucks making it hard to copy the
> latest Windows.
>

In actual fact Karl, Unix predates DOS by about 10 years.

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Regards, John