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- From: kjb@calmasd.prime.com (Ken Brucker)
- Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.advocacy
- Subject: Re: OS/2 Computer Search
- Message-ID: <1993Jan6.093512.1076@calmasd.prime.com>
- Date: 6 Jan 93 17:35:12 GMT
- References: <1993Jan5.201132.17054@athena.mit.edu>
- Organization: Computervision, San Diego CA
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- In article <1993Jan5.201132.17054@athena.mit.edu>, mgrice@athena.mit.edu (Matthew Grice) writes:
- > I'm a UNIX guy myself, but my parents are looking for a new computer
- > and I thought you would like to know what it is like to deal in
- > an os/2-hostile market.
-
- [ ... misc deleted about how difficult it can be to get what you want and
- not what the saleslug wants to sell you ... ]
-
- >
- > That's what it is like, folks. You want OS/2, you buy IBM ( if you
- > dont understand DOS/Windows/ISA/x86 (which I dont))
-
- Or you could find someone that does know something about OS/2 and system
- configureation to help configure a system that doesn't come straight from IBM,
- probably save quite a bit of $$$ and get the system much sooner.
-
- Ken
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