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- Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.advocacy
- Path: sparky!uunet!microsoft!wingnut!petesk
- From: petesk@microsoft.com (Pete Skelly)
- Subject: Re: OS/2 Commercial
- Message-ID: <1993Jan03.031104.25917@microsoft.com>
- Date: 03 Jan 93 03:11:04 GMT
- Organization: Microsoft Corp.
- References: <19135@mindlink.bc.ca>
- Lines: 32
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- In article <19135@mindlink.bc.ca> Jeremy_Reimer@mindlink.bc.ca wrote:
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- <comments about IBM add deleted>
- >
- >
- > 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...)
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- If IBM did this kind of add, they would not be competing with Apple or MS,
- but with Nintendo and Sega. I don't think they'd have a chance, as both
- of these companies are Japanese, and would probably have less trouble
- with the FTC.
-
- Then again, maybe IBM should sell game systems...
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- >
- > Just seeing Wing being played full-screen to a national audience would
- > probably make Nintendo sales plummet!
-
- Nintendo will probably have it on SNES is a few weeks anyway....And it will
- probably be a lot more responsive as it will be running on dedicated game
- hardware anyway.
-
- petesk@microsoft.com
- My Opinions...
-