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- From: spexet@math.lsa.umich.edu (D. Robert Spexet II)
- Subject: Re: A Suggestion to IBM Management (sorta long)
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- Date: Wed, 02 Sep 92 19:03:34 EDT
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- In article <1992Sep2.162241.7992@hemlock.cray.com> bgm@cray.com (Bert Moshier) writes:
- >I wrote a letter to John Akers (3.5 pages with 38 pages of supporting
- >documentation). Basically, it talks about OS/2 Marketing and Advertising.
- >
- >One of its suggestions was to increase IBM developed OS/2 application
- >advertisign. These applications can show off the abilities OS/2 have in
- >important areas like multitasking, workplace shell, SOM, threading, support,
- >etc.
- >
- >People look for more than one example or voice. By giving a voice to IBM's
- >really outstanding OS/2 applications (e.g. TCP/IP for OS/2 1.2.1) it gives
- >backing to OS/2.
- >
- >Isn't this what you are discussing?
-
- It is exactly what I am discussing. To be quite honest, OS/2 in and of itself
- is, to most people, nothing more than a system that can run lots of applica-
- tions at once. (This is an opinion only.) Many people are completely un-
- aware of the powers of robust multitasking because they are so used to the
- DOS/Windows paradigm of simple task-switching.
-
- But with OS/2, IBM has a chance to make people a little bit more aware of
- what multitasking gives you. They have an entire suite of products that
- can and do take advantage of the robust multitasking capabilities of OS/2.
- They should promote them more.
-
- >A personal moto : Don't like <.....> be a stealth product!
- >
- >Bert.
-
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