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What Is It With Operating Systems, Anyway?

I have used an IBM PC-based computing system since I first started using a computer back in the early 80s.  Since then, I’ve moved from DOS 3.0 up to Windows XP Professional, with many stops along the way.  At one point I’d considered getting an Apple Macintosh computer, but back then, the price was prohibitively expensive, as was the software.  In recent years, I’ve even had experience with another operating system, which ran on my current hardware.  I’m not really convinced any one system is better than the other, but I am convinced that some of the other computer users out there are truly whacked!

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