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- From: mdaymon@rainbow.rmii.com (Maxwell Daymon)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc
- Subject: Re: Amiga promotion in USA.
- Date: 2 Jan 1996 07:38:28 GMT
- Organization: Rocky Mountain Internet Inc.
- Message-ID: <4candk$6pq@natasha.rmii.com>
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- bthompx (bthompx@es.co.nz) wrote:
- : Why is it that os/2 is a better os for the pc than win95 in most every way
- : (except application support) ? It runs on the same hardware, yet multitasks
-
- Oh? OS/2 has better compatibility with the thousands of Windows 3.1 apps
- that Microsoft constantly quotes to get you to jump on the bandwagon.
- Buying a copy of OS/2 with Win-OS2 support gives you a much larger
- application base than Windows95.
-
- Windows NT is the true contemporary to OS/2. Win3.1 and Win95 are
- leftover junk that will probably be phased out in favor of NT anyway.
-
- : I think you will find most amiga users generall more informed about the
- : computer industry than the average pc user - and not taken in by Billy's
- : Billion Dollar Bullshit :-)
-
- Well, I can't say if that's true or not, I don't know. I can say that
- since the PC is purchased by virtually everyone and his/her brother, the
- >average< awareness goes down considerably. You've got millions upon
- millions who have purchased PCs because their (aunt|uncle|cousin|brother|monkey)
- told them to, yet they don't even know how to do anything except load
- America Online and "Write" - People who buy the non mainstream and less
- popular machines are often doing so with an awareness and a purpose.
- Otherwise, they wouldn't risk it.
-