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- Subject: Re: I will NEVER buy Windows 95 !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! :-(
- Followup-To: comp.os.os2.advocacy
- Date: 11 Feb 1996 20:04:38 GMT
- Organization: Colorado School of Mines
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- A User (an500029@anon.penet.fi) wrote:
- : Hi Guys
- : First of all, I do use Win95 and I like it. It's much better than
- : Windows 3.1 (interface, performance, resources). I've seen little of
- : OS/2 (there's not much to see anyway), and I didn't like it. I
-
- If you've only seen little of OS/2, how do you know that there's
- not much to see?
-
- : installed it once (OS/2 2.1), and was crashing more than Windows 3.1
- : at the time, so I took it off.
-
- : I know that Warp is better than OS2 2.1 but I never gave it a try.
- : Why? Well because there are no native applications for it. And when
-
- Fortunately, you are wrong. There are plenty of OS/2 applications.
-
- : I say applications, I mean something like Adobe Pagemaker, Corel draw
- : (OS/2 has Corel Version 3.0) 6.0, Borland Delphi.... (I'm not even
-
- How about:
- ColorWorks for OS/2
- Impos/2
-
- How about:
- Visual Age for OS/2
- WatcomC/C++ for OS/2
- Borland C++
- VisPro C/C++
- DB/2
-
- : going to mention the Microsoft Apps, because I know you just hate
- : them). When OS/2 people say they have 2500 apps, most of these apps
- : are basically Shareware, nothing major (except from IBM). A lot of
-
- Describe, Mesa, SmartSuite, the list goes on and on...
- These applications, mind you, are not shareware.
-
- : people are talking about how good Warp is, maybe it is better than
- : Windows 95 (maybe much better), but you don't just buy an OS to just
- : look at it, you want to run applications, many applications, many
- : native applications.
-
- How many applications are available for Win95. Office '95?
- Norton Utilities? Less than 200 native titles.
-
- : I also think that OS/2 interface is too hard for a lot of users.
- : For example when I try to access Drive A (with no disk in it), I get a
- : popup message asking me if I wanted to return an Error Code to the
- : program or to do something else; Why? Just tell me that there's no
- : disk in Drive A? Also, I really think that you need at least 16 MB
- : Ram (just like 95) to get an acceptable performance from Warp.
-
- You can always set AUTOFAIL=YES. BTW, you don't need 16 MB to
- run OS/2 acceptably. People run OS/2 just fine in 4MB.
-
- : Now, for the future, there is nothing better than Windows NT. I
- : have a pentium 90 (16 MB Ram) so I'm stuck on 95 for today (tommorrow
- : I'm going to get my Pentium Pro 200). But I think NT has it all, the
-
- ROTFL. I hope you get a real 32-bit OS to take advantage of that PPro.
- As for NT, nothing is better at wasting resources, being incompatible,
- being slow and expensive.
-
- : stability, the performance (Alpha's, Power PC's and Pentium Pro's),
- : and now the applications.
-
- What NT applications?
-
- [drivel snipped]
-
- : One more thing, people complain that MS bundled MSN into 95! I
- : tried running a telnet application from Warp once and it gave me a
- : messgae box asking me if I wanted to connect to an IBM internet
- : provider although I was already connected through my ISP.......
-
- Sure you were. Why is it that each time I try to use that pathetic
- excuse for a Telnet that comes with Win95, and I try to use vi,
- I get an invalid page fault?
-
- BTW, why don't you put a signature on your posts? What are you
- afraid of?
-
- [followup trimmed]
- --
- / 'Now they sitting on the time bomb | Aleksander P. Lesniak |
- | Now I know the time has come | alesniak@mines.edu |
- | What goes on top is comin' on down | selim sivad sevil |
- | What goes around, it comes around' | |
- | -- Robert Nesta Marley O.M. | Team OS/2 /
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