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- From: jahonen@cs.joensuu.fi (Jarmo Ahonen)
- Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.advocacy
- Subject: Re: More advertising
- Message-ID: <1992Dec31.062803.26739@cs.joensuu.fi>
- Date: 31 Dec 92 06:28:03 GMT
- References: <8230@lib.tmc.edu> <1992Dec29.181546.1151@wam.umd.edu> <30DEC199218072507@lims01.lerc.nasa.gov> <1992Dec31.000144.10417@wam.umd.edu>
- Organization: University of Joensuu
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- rsrodger@wam.umd.edu (Yamanari) writes:
-
- > Let me ask: Is it everyones opinion that OS/2 is sucha bad
- > product that it cannot stand on it's merits alone and that we
- > have to buffer these merits with blatant lies?
- >
- (stuff deleted)
- > *Why* is it necessary to lie? If you're going to put a qualifier
- > in there, put an HONEST one, like "most". I prefer not confusing
- > people and just omitting the qualifier altogether.
-
- Here in finland most of the OS/2 adds say something like "most" or
- "almost every" etc. And they mention 6 MB of memory and 80 MB disk...
- Actually the memory requirement is that 6 MB and the proposed is 8 MB.
-