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- From: os2man@panix.com (Larry Salomon Jr.)
- Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.advocacy
- Subject: Re: More advertising
- Message-ID: <1992Dec31.150806.17631@panix.com>
- Date: 31 Dec 92 15:08:06 GMT
- References: <1992Dec29.135215.20084@panix.com> <1992Dec31.101220.19875@ringer.cs.utsa.edu>
- Organization: PANIX Public Access Unix, NYC
- Lines: 49
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- In <1992Dec31.101220.19875@ringer.cs.utsa.edu> mlevis@ringer.cs.utsa.edu (Mike Levis) (OS/2) writes:
-
- Finally, someone decides to respond with something that the original purpose
- of this thread intended to provoke. To the rest of you, I didn't ask for a
- critique of my wording (big #%@!ing deal about the word "all"...drop it?
- Ok. If that idea even gets considered for publication, much less having a
- wording dispute, then I'll be surprise.). Can't you find better ways to add
- to this newsgroup?
-
- Yes, I realized that 4M RAM and 30M DASD was pushing things quite a bit.
- However, you'll note that nowhere in there did I state it was a full
- installation. In fact, with the default installation, minus some of the more
- useless stuff (like the games...I did say useless, not "funless"), OS/2 fits
- nicely in 30M of DASD. Also, I claim that 4M RAM and 30M DASD is *not*
- unrealistic for any computer purchased in 1992; given the Microsoft Windows
- explosion in 1991 and 1992, I also claim that there were significant numbers
- of computer purchased during this timeframe. So nyah, nyah nyah nyah, nyah.
- :-P
-
- Here's the next mag ad idea I came up with while stuck in traffic last night:
-
- (big bold font) "Why put off until tomorrow what you can do today?"
-
- (not-so-big font) At IBM, we believe that you shouldn't have to wait until
- tomorrow to use new technology, especially when it is already available today.
-
- (insert OS/2 logo)
- (caption) "Tomorrow's technology today"
-
- (fine print) OS/2 2.0 with Crash Protection(tm) provides all that you need
- with its capability to run any DOS(tm), Windows(tm), or OS/2(tm)
- application.
-
- Minimum hardware required: Intel 80386 or compatbile CPU with 4 megabytes
- of memory. An 80486 or compatible CPU with 6 megabytes of memory is
- recommended. To order, call 1-800-3IBMOS2. Available on 5.25 and 3.5 inch
- media.
-
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-
- How 'bout the rest of you come up with some of your own ideas instead of
- concentrating on taking a scalpel to my admittedly non-professional idea?
-
- Cheers,
- Q
- --
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