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- Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.advocacy
- Path: sparky!uunet!usc!cs.utexas.edu!torn!csd.unb.ca!news
- From: hwhalen@jupiter.sun.csd.unb.ca (Hugh Whalen)
- Subject: OS/2 is the best?
- Message-ID: <1993Jan6.145201.22840@jupiter.sun.csd.unb.ca>
- Sender: Hugh Whalen
- Organization: Faculty of Administration, University of New Brunswick
- References: <C0EutC.J8w@news.cso.uiuc.edu>
- Date: Wed, 6 Jan 1993 14:52:01 GMT
- Lines: 48
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- In article <C0EutC.J8w@news.cso.uiuc.edu> fippen@ux2.cso.uiuc.edu (J. Fippen) writes:
- > I see all the time information about Windows,Windows, Windows.Does this
- >make sense in an os2 category?
- > The people who use Windows are those not interested in the best. They
- >want something easy. Fine. They should have Windows. But for people who want
- ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
- Now, this is new. A lot of the bitching about Windows in this group is
- about how hard it is ..... system.ini, win.ini, config.sys, memory
- managers, etc.
-
- >something a lot better, at least 100 times more powerful, well, they would
- >be satisfied with nothing less than os2.
- > Windows is kind of for the slow types, the satisfied types, the people
- >who won't put forth the effort to run os2. The people who run hard will want
- ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
- This is also new. OS/2 is harder to run than Windows .... hmmmm.
-
- >os2 because it is the best, and because it is the program of the future.
-
- *Sigh* I run Windows because it is *best for me*. I am just finishing
- off my doctoral dissertation (hopefully only a couple of weeks work
- left :-) )in Management Information Systems using Word for Windows,
- Excel, PowerPoint, and TrueType fonts and using OLE to connect various
- things together. Since OS/2 does not yet support TrueType or enhanced
- mode (necessary to run PowerPoint) I cannot switch to OS/2 without
- redoing a lot of work. I also have an ATI card and I believe that
- seemless OS/2 drivers are not available for this card. When and if
- these bugs (features?) with OS/2 are corrected I *will* try it out on my
- machine. I am not an anti OS/2 fanatic but at this point in time it is
- *not* best for me and I expect it is not best for a lot of people for
- reasons similar to mine. If someone runs a lot of DOS programs OS/2
- probably would be best for them. There are many reasons why OS/2 is
- best for some individuals and they have been posted ad nauseum (sp?)
- on the net but to say that OS/2 is simply better without a qualifier
- is wrong.
-
- As for the gratuitous insults .... I am not slow, nor easily satified,
- and I spend a lot of time and effort keeping up with various technologies
-
- Program of the future .... well, maybe .... there's going to be lots
- of competition .... and that's best <grin> for all of us.
-
- Hugh Whalen | Where all men think alike, no one
- Faculty of Administration | thinks very much.
- University of New Brunswick | - Walter Lippmann
-
-
- DISCLAIMER: Neither UNB nor I care what the other thinks.
-