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- From: mortenk@dhhalden.no (MORTEN KNUDSEN)
- Subject: Re: Bugs in OS/2 v2.0, unreasonable number?
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- References: <C0z3xt.E45@knot.ccs.queensu.ca> <1993Jan16.211322.2446@ccsvax.sfasu.edu> <mg.727296313@tyrolia> <gnash.727403033@ee.uts.EDU.AU>
- Date: Fri, 22 Jan 1993 17:30:43 GMT
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- In article <gnash.727403033@ee.uts.EDU.AU> gnash@ee.uts.edu.au (Greg Nash) writes:
- >From: gnash@ee.uts.edu.au (Greg Nash)
- >Subject: Re: Bugs in OS/2 v2.0, unreasonable number?
- >Date: 19 Jan 93 00:23:53 GMT
- >mg@tyrolia (Michael Golan) writes:
- >[stuff..]
- >>For the sarcasm-impaired: OS/2 2.0 is full of god damn#%$#@%$#! bugs. I use
- >>it, cause nothing better is around, but it is a joke, not an OS. I too
- >>hope OS/2 2.1 is better. But given IBM's stupid attitudes as seen in the
- >>above example (I can reproduce the original if u never saw it), and the
- >>fact that IBM is adding more and more features rather than stabilize the
- >>system, plus the delays and the pressures, seems to imply that 2.1
- >>won't be much better (It should be easy to be somewhat better :-)
- >
- >>In IBM's defense, people seems to prefer buggy flashy programs
- >>rather than simpler, reliable products. As wierd as it may sound ... Only
- >>about 2-3 years ago, you couldn't find serious bugs in commercial applications
- >>by just playing around with them for an hour or so. All the Windows programs
- >>and other GUI related applications I have seen lately are buggy.
- >Remember Windows 3.0? It came out at the right time to be a hit, though
- >perhaps it should have been called a VERY WIDE beta test of Windows 3
- >(and 3.1 being the real release...)
- >
- Yes, windoze 3.0 did have bugs, but nothing compared to OS/2 2.0.
- Sometimes I wonder if the people coding OS/2 are complete moreons.
- I really hope 2.1 will prove me wrong.
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