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- From: Jeremy_Reimer@mindlink.bc.ca (Jeremy Reimer)
- Subject: Re: OS/2 Commercial
- Organization: MIND LINK! - British Columbia, Canada
- Date: Sat, 2 Jan 1993 10:27:39 GMT
- Message-ID: <19135@mindlink.bc.ca>
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- > Phil Scarr writes:
- >
- > Msg-ID: <1993Jan1.225356.7143@murdoch.acc.Virginia.EDU>
- > Posted: Fri, 1 Jan 1993 22:53:56
- >
- > Org. : Neuroclinical Trials Center, University of Virginia
- >
- > In article <C074MM.CJG@ecf.toronto.edu> dhaliwa@ecf.toronto.edu (DHALIWAL
- > BIKRAM SINGH) writes:
- > >At the beginning of Star Trek (broadcast nightly here in Toronto at
- > >7:00 pm) IBM had a OS/2 commercial on. The commercial revolves around
- > >a pool table with balls being pocketed as the announcer espouses all
- > >of OS/2 virtues (ie. true multitasking, GUI etc.). I agree it is
- > >attention getting, and I think it is effective in its simplicity.
- > >If anyone else has seen the commercial, what do you think?
- > >
- > >--
- > >
- > >.............................................
- > > Bikram Dhaliwal (dhaliwa@civ.toronto.edu)
- > > Toronto (dhaliwa@ecf.toronto.edu)
- >
- > BLEAH! I thought it was TERRIBLE! Typical IBM soft-sell dreary ad.
- > Why is it that Apple ads show computers, Microsoft ads show computers,
- > but IBM ads show POOL TABLES???? How useless. How typical.
- >
- > -Phil
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- I agree. All they need to do (in my highly demented opinion, admittedly) is
- show someone playing Wing Commander (obviously they would have to pay a fee
- to Origin, so this would never happen) and then someone walks in and wants
- something, so the player just hits ALT-HOME... then we see a cool OS/2 screen
- with pulse, chess playing and Wing is still going in the little window (the
- 32-bit GRE would help here, and a SVGA driver...)
-
- Hell, that's all it took to convince ME! :) Wordprocessing, modemming and
- games. I wanted to run them all at once. Windoze wouldn't, no matter how
- hard I tried. OS/2 did.
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- Just seeing Wing being played full-screen to a national audience would
- probably make Nintendo sales plummet!
-
- Jeremy (who just wants to blow away Kilrathi and be home in time for dinner,
- modemming and a wordprocessing!)
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