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- From: cvadrtbc@vmsb.is.csupomona.edu (Srikanth Viswanathan)
- Subject: Re: Dvorak switches to OS/2!!
- Organization: California Polytechnic University, Pomona
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- Date: Mon, 27 Jul 1992 03:02:00 GMT
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- In article <l6uvg3INN8nr@utkcs2.cs.utk.edu>, hethmon@cs.utk.edu (PAUL HETHMON) writes...
- >If you haven't seen it yet, in the August 92 issue of PC Mag,
- >John Dvorak has announced his switch to OS/2. To quote:
- >
- > "Drop any preconceived notions about OS/2 and just install
- > it. If you've got the right machine, it's rock solid."
- >
- >He's written a pretty fair column about his switching to OS/2 and
- >what he likes about it. He also manages to throw a few jabs at
- >Microsoft for their "propaganda machine ... to keep this OS out
- >of the hands of the users."
- >
- >It's interesting now that Zachmann has resigned, another ZD
- >columnist has gone to OS/2. I wonder what PC Week will do now?
- >
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- As much as I liked the article, I wasn't so pleased with Dvorak's
- statement that you need a 386/33 or 40 with 8-16 megs of RAM *minimum*
- to run OS/2, and he also implied that Tseng cards don't work with OS/2.
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- Srikanth
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