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- From: rbotimer@max.ct.gmr.com (R Douglas Botimer)
- Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.advocacy
- Subject: Re: Windows NT: The Other side of the coin
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- Date: 22 Dec 92 14:21:56 GMT
- References: <1992Dec22.013552.1171@usage.csd.unsw.OZ.AU>
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- In article <1992Dec22.013552.1171@usage.csd.unsw.OZ.AU>
- pendrith@spectrum.cs.unsw.oz.au (Mark Pendrith) writes:
- :In article <1992Dec17.015023.2841@ringer.cs.utsa.edu>
- mlevis@ringer.cs.utsa.edu (Mike Levis) (OS/2) writes:
- :>In article <1992Dec16.215713.22059@netcom.com> timbol@netcom.com (Mike
- Timbol) writes:
- :>
- :>
- :>
- :>>Note that some of these problems also apply to OS/2 2.x (any version).
- :>>I welcome other people's input on this list, especially how you see
- :>>OS/2 compare in these areas.
- :>>
- :>> - Mike
- :>>
- :>>P.S. - I apologize for posting information about NT in this group, but
- :>> I'm sure the people that have a problem with it won't mind this
- :>> particular article.
- :>
- :>You posted advocacy-type info about NT here, so that is okay. Just as long
- :>as no one posts discussion-type info about NT (which would belong in some NT
- :>discussion group) in an OS/2 group. Examples of NT discussion that would
- :>not be welcome in this OS/2 group is like:
- :>
- :> ``>Where can I get the NT beta and a pizza?
- :> >Thanks in advance...''
- :>
- :> ``Oh, just call 1-800-xxx-xxxx for NT, and xxx-xxxx for Pizza Hut.
- :> Hope this helps!''
- :>
- :>or
- :>
- :> ``>>I know what HPFS is and NTFS is, but what is ETFS?''
- :>
- :> ``>Evil Timothy F. Sipples :-)''
- :>
- :> ``dont mention name to me. he very bad person. he spread FUD
- :> about our NT. he is fiend. he not deserve to live in america.
- :> send him to foreign place. i am american since born, but evil
- :> sipples must be born jupiter or sun. who stand up to such evil?
- :> even if we chase evil sipples out of america, some NoS/2 person
- :> take his place.''
- :>
- :>or
- :>
- :> ``>Did anyone hear about the new game applet someone wrote for NT?''
- :>
- :> ``Yes, I installed it yesterday. In this game you must battle the
- :> Evil Sipples and his band of Amigoid-like OS/2 users. They have
- :> been blinded by the greed of IBM. Beware: don't be fooled by
- :> the Evil Sipples. He "acts" nice and helpful, but be scared -- be
- :> very, very scared.''
- :>
- :>i.e. when two or more NT people talk to each other.
- :>
- :>--
- :>==== Mike Levis mlevis@ringer.cs.utsa.edu ====
- :>:: ftp ftp-os2.nmsu.edu (128.123.35.151) :: .--.
- :>:: for OS/2 software & information. Get :: (OS/2)
- :>:::: the OS/2 FAQL /pub/os2/all/info/faq ::::: ~--~
- :
- :i like this very much. NT: the New Troglodytism?
- :
- :BTW, has anyone else noticed that there is actually almost *no* windows
- :advocacy in the ms-windows.advocacy group? you look in there every so often,
- :and see maybe 8 or so new postings a day. all the windows odvocates (this
- :was a typo, but may be a freudian slip) seem to be over here!
- :
- :will the last windows advocate to leave please remeber to turn the lights out,
- :etc.?
- :
- :- Mark
- :
- :pendrith@cs.unsw.oz.au
-
- Ditto!! I'd start discussing the merits of OS/2 in c.o.o.misc, but I'm afraid
- the Windows/NT folks would follow (some beat me there :)
-
- Doug
-