Re: Don't bash Microsoft (was A89: Sim City 68k)


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Re: Don't bash Microsoft (was A89: Sim City 68k)




I don't follow you at all.  What does AOL shield?  And
Macs did sheild you from basically anything dealing
with sytem or hardware.  And people who use AOL for
chat rooms DO have Internet access.  In that, AOL
creates a perfectly normal PPP TCP/IP connection
to their computer that goes directly to the net (no,
not through a proxy either, the proxy is only a part
of the AOL-MSIE integrated browser).  Therefore,
they have full 100% access to the Internet.  Which
I believe is all that's required for having "internet
access".

In a message dated 10/1/00 3:17:06 AM US Mountain Standard Time, 
rosyna@earthlink.net writes:

> but macs never shielded you from what is out there. AOL shields you. 
> Its when people that say they have "internet access" when they have 
> AOL, and go into AOL chat rooms only, that is what makes me hate AOL.



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