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- Path: sparky!uunet!psinntp!itsmail1.hamilton.edu!jmalloy
- From: jmalloy@itsmail1.hamilton.edu (Joseph T. Malloy)
- Subject: Re: More advertising
- Message-ID: <1992Dec31.223032.7858@itsmail1.hamilton.edu>
- Organization: Hamilton College - Clinton, NY
- References: <1992Dec29.135215.20084@panix.com> <1992Dec31.101220.19875@ringer.cs.utsa.edu> <1992Dec31.150806.17631@panix.com>
- Date: Thu, 31 Dec 1992 22:30:32 GMT
- Lines: 45
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- In article <1992Dec31.150806.17631@panix.com> os2man@panix.com (Larry Salomon Jr.) writes:
- >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
-
- I see, you defend yourself ex post facto by having impled one thing and n,
- then, when questioned, pointing out that you didn't say it and really didn't
- mean what you implied. I suppose this might pass for good advertising,
- but I still think you're going to have a bunch o' angry users on your
- hands when their 4 MB 40 MB hard drive (latter is my figure for
- illustration only) systems are loaded with OS/2 2.x...
-
- This sorta reminds me of bait and switch: "Thanks for the purchase, sir,
- and, oh, by the way, you'll really need more memory to run OS/2 -- we
- happen to have it right here, on special, and, gee, your disk probably
- isn't quite up to OS/2's needs, so here's a special deal..."
-
- >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
- ^^^
- So much for rational argument, eh?
-
- [another 'advertisement' idea deleted]
-
- Um, don't quit your day job, ok?
-
- Happy New Year!
-
- jmalloy@hamilton.edu
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