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- Path: sparky!uunet!comp.vuw.ac.nz!actrix!Steve.Withers
- From: Steve.Withers@bbs.actrix.gen.nz
- Subject: Re: OS/2 stopped selling!!
- Organization: Actrix Information Exchange
- Date: Tue, 15 Dec 1992 19:06:08 GMT
- Message-ID: <1992Dec15.190608.9089@actrix.gen.nz>
- References: <1992Dec12.082639.18197@microsoft.com> <dposey.724189852@well.sf.ca.us> <Bz5zCw.897@newsflash.concordia.ca>
- Sender: Steve.Withers@actrix.gen.nz (Steve Withers)
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- In article <Bz5zCw.897@newsflash.concordia.ca> patrice@cenparmi.concordia.ca (SCATTOLIN patrice) writes:
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- > According to a local software store OS/2 has stopped selling. After
- > looking and not seeing it on the shelves I asked if they were selling OS/2.
- > The salesman said that they had one copy left in stock but it stopped selling
- > a while back blaming a stop in advertising.
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- > Is the true around where you are? Why?
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- > I tought that sales were picking up, I guess I was wrong.
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- IBM has the OS/2 elephant in every computer-related magazine I know of -
- locally and from overseas.
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- There are even billboards on the road out of town (for locals: check out the
- Hutt Road at Kaiwharawhara - left corner at the lights as you head north to
- the Ngaurunga Gorge - right corner if you go up the Ngaio Gorge).
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- Nothing on TV or radio.....but NZ has too small a market for that.
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- Steve
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- **** Happy user of OS/2 v2!! **** | democratic system "real soon now".
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