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Ken Sletten writes:

>FWIW, I will add that in an effort to solve the "Tower of Babel" problem
>with multiple operating systems, senior manager in the US Navy have
>put out something called "IT-21".  The way I read it (and I have only
>skimmed it;  one of these days I will go back and try and understand
>the details), it says that *ALL* Navy desktop / *network* operating
>systems will be MS Windows 95-98-2000 / NT based ASAP

In what way does a mix of Win95, Win98 and WinNT solve the "Tower of
Babel" problem? Are they under the misapprehension that these three
platforms behave similarly?

-- Bruce


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