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- From: rsrodger@wam.umd.edu (Yamanari)
- Subject: Re: OS/2 is the best?
- Message-ID: <1993Jan6.154620.29542@wam.umd.edu>
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- Organization: University of Maryland, College Park
- References: <C0EutC.J8w@news.cso.uiuc.edu> <1993Jan6.145201.22840@jupiter.sun.csd.unb.ca>
- Date: Wed, 6 Jan 1993 15:46:20 GMT
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- In article <1993Jan6.145201.22840@jupiter.sun.csd.unb.ca> hwhalen@jupiter.sun.csd.unb.ca (Hugh Whalen) writes:
- >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.
-
-
- My sister and parents, all utter illiterates (i,e., they can't
- chance *directories* in DOS), can run Windows and install new
- programs just fine. (It helps that I have a big sign next
- to their machines that say "INSTALL PROGRAMS TO DRIVE D."
- "IN CASE OF EMERGENCY, TYPE MAKEDOS AT DOS PROMPT TO RESTORE
- DOS" [just replaces the config and autoexec]).
-
-
- >>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.
-
-
- Or the people who *can't* run OS/2. People talk about NTs
- hardware requirements and how steep they are. They're forgetting
- that anything over 4megs/100megs looks pretty darn steep to
- people running Windows.
-
-
- >>os2 because it is the best, and because it is the program of the future.
-
-
- "program of the future" What a load. OS/2 is the program
- of now. If I am still forced to be running it 5 years from
- now, I will be sick. My Amiga 1000 used to multitask with more
- smoothness and power than OS/2 does on a machine that is
- orders of magnitude more powerful with more than 16 times
- the amount of memory.
-
-
- >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
-
-
-
- In fairness to IBM, both are now included in WINOS@31. Emode
- is a new addition, while tt has been there for awhile. I'm
- rather disappointed that IBM has stepped back from it's promise
- to include TT support in OS/2 in addition to ATM, but..
-
-
- Anyone know if an OS/2 version of SuperATM is in the works?
-
-
- >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
-
-
- IMHO, "seamless windows" was a big mistake. I have yet to
- see it run with any speed, even when it works. Rather than
- making such a big deal over it, IBM should have done it
- stealthly--that is, when they had the hardware that could do it
- without slowing the machine down to nil, they could advertise that
- hardware as *adding* a feature to OS/2 and not have to field
- all of these "why don't my windows programs run seamless when
- it's advertised on the box, dammit?" questions.
-
- This would have made a good push for XGA2, too. "Includes
- NEW! seamless windows support for OS/2!"
-
- --
- Blaming "society" for your problems is like blaming clouds for rain.
- --- boycott == coercion == censorship == closed mindedness == cowardice ---
- "Psalms 23:1 The LORD is my shepherd; I shall not want."
- Shepherds are for sheep. ----- Pain teaches.
-