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- From: ks3l+@andrew.cmu.edu (Kenton Shaver)
- Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
- Subject: Re: I've seen NT......and I'll take OS/2 2.0 thanks!
- Message-ID: <0eYdKdG00VpK49L5QX@andrew.cmu.edu>
- Date: 19 Aug 92 10:40:41 GMT
- Article-I.D.: andrew.0eYdKdG00VpK49L5QX
- References: <1992Aug14.202253.33580@watson.ibm.com> <SXMRP.20.0@orca.alaska.edu> <1992Aug18.090822.696@calmasd.prime.com>
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- Organization: Carnegie Mellon, Pittsburgh, PA
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- In article <1992Aug17.201353.3278@news.columbia.edu>, mig@cunixb.cc.columbia.e\
- du (Meir I Green) writes:
-
- > I don't have that kind of money to spend. IBM's package is inaccessable to
- > the typical home user who, in my opinion, is likely to have a spare machine
- > or laptop which he will want to network on occasion. It is too bad that I
- > can't use IBM TCP-IP, since it would cost me more than it is worth to me.
-
- This is exactly what that Dvorak person who writes for PC Magazine
- wants you to think, but he made it appear as if he was jumping on
- the OS/2 bandwagon. Then, when his reader's defenses are lowered,
- Dvorak starts talking about how OS/2 blew out his 486DX/2 - 50mHz
- and it can't possibly be run with anything less than a ----
-
- Microsoft never had better ad copy. His article was ALMOST,
- but not quite, subtly slanted.
-
- Did anyone see the article in PC Magazine by one of their columnests
- (a feature article) that sort of "compared" a NeXTstation to a PC
- to a something-else and of course the PC won hands down. What does
- the reader expect from PC Magazine? A declaration that the NeXT
- is better and they are all better off reading NeXTworld?
-
- Mr. Z seems to be the only honest columnest there.
-
- KWS
-