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  1. Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.advocacy
  2. Path: sparky!uunet!infonode!bbrown
  3. From: bbrown@infonode.ingr.com (Bailey Brown)
  4. Subject: Re: Impressions of the July NT Release
  5. Message-ID: <1992Jul23.184328.17409@infonode.ingr.com>
  6. Keywords: NT
  7. Organization: Intergraph Corporation, Huntsville, AL.
  8. References: <1992Jul22.142451.14310@scott.skidmore.edu> <m0BDoB2w164w@knex.Gwinnett.COM>
  9. Date: Thu, 23 Jul 1992 18:43:28 GMT
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  12. gess@knex.Gwinnett.COM (Gess Shankar) writes:
  13.  
  14. >Oh, I don't know about that. There is some truth to that statement. As a
  15. >matter of fact, I, like some others on the net, subscribe to the theory
  16. >that one of important reasons for Win 3.1 success is '3d buttons'. In
  17. >this era, 'image is everything' and I think Microsoft, above all, knows this.
  18. >;-)
  19.  
  20. OS/2 1.2 had 3D buttons.  The reason for Win 3.0's success was v86 mode,
  21. which OS/2 didn't have until 2.0.
  22.  
  23. >GeSS
  24. >--
  25. >Gess Shankar      |<><>|Internet: gess@knex.Gwinnett.COM                |<><>|
  26. >Knowledge Exchange|<><>|{rutgers,ogicse,gatech}!emory!gwinnett!knex!gess|<><>|
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  29. Bailey Brown                               "Above all else, confusion reigns."
  30. Intergraph Corporation                                  
  31. bbrown@casca.b11.ingr.com                              Procol Harum
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