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- From: mccall@mksol.dseg.ti.com (fred j mccall 575-3539)
- Subject: Re: More advertising
- Message-ID: <1992Dec31.174624.29207@mksol.dseg.ti.com>
- Organization: Texas Instruments Inc
- References: <8230@lib.tmc.edu> <1992Dec29.181546.1151@wam.umd.edu> <30DEC199218072507@lims01.lerc.nasa.gov> <1992Dec31.000144.10417@wam.umd.edu>
- Date: Thu, 31 Dec 1992 17:46:24 GMT
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- In <1992Dec31.000144.10417@wam.umd.edu> rsrodger@wam.umd.edu (Yamanari) writes:
-
- >In article <30DEC199218072507@lims01.lerc.nasa.gov> scdorcy@lims01.lerc.nasa.gov (JAMES DORCEY) writes:
- >>In article <1992Dec29.181546.1151@wam.umd.edu>, rsrodger@wam.umd.edu
- >>(Yamanari) writes...
- >>>In article <8230@lib.tmc.edu> jmaynard@oac.hsc.uth.tmc.edu (Jay Maynard)
- >>> So we're agreed that using the word "all" is a lie, right? So
- >>> *pull the word*.
- >>
- >>Okay, we'll pull the word "all". How's this sound as a replacement:
- >>
- >> ...with an operating system that runs more DOS programs than MS DOS 5,
- >> more Windows programs than Windows 3.1, and all OS/2 programs.
- >>
- >>Is this better?
- >>
-
- > 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?
-
- No, but then you seem to have some pretty selective rules for
- determining what are 'blatant lies'.
-
- >
- > 1) OS/2 does NOT run more DOS programs than DOS5. If it does,
- > I must be doing something wrong. For instance, Autocad doesn't
- > seem to run so well. Neither does Comanche:Maximum Overkill.
-
- Ok. You're doing something wrong. We can put that in the ad, if you
- like.
-
- > 2) OS/2 might run more Windows programs than 3.1 if you include
- > ancient programs and cheezy shareware, but I don't and neither
- > do most customers. I think it's a little dishonest to
- > pretend that the ability to run ancient 2.x programs outweighs
- > the ability to run currently released applications. In fact,
- > incompatibility with unupdated programs is almost *assumed*,
- > while compatibility with all present releases -- at the
- > very least -- is implied by the word "more".
-
- Funny thing, though. That 'assumed' compatibility with unupdated
- programs? *WINDOWS* doesn't meet it.
-
- > 3) Some older 16 bit OS/2 programs broke under OS/2 2.0, or
- > so I've heard. I do not stand by this last statement, but I
- > am almost certain it is true.
-
- I gathered this as well.
-
- > *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.
-
- Nobody lied, except that last one (that I assume was the product of
- not thinking it out -- like you said, backward compatibility tends to
- be *assumed*). If you really want to see lies, take a look at the
- various MS promises prior to each upgrade of Windows and in the course
- of advertising the old ones prior to upgrade. For example, Windows
- 3.1 is supposed to run ALL Windows 3.0 programs -- but it doesn't;
- they left this little caveat out about those 'rules' that MS itself
- breaks that programs would have to follow to run on Windows 3.1.
-
- Geez, are you Brian with a new account, or what?
-
- --
- "Insisting on perfect safety is for people who don't have the balls to live
- in the real world." -- Mary Shafer, NASA Ames Dryden
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