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- From: cgordon@vpnet.chi.il.us (gordon hlavenka)
- Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc,comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc
- Subject: Re: Why not OS/2 ???? Hmmmmmm
- Message-ID: <1992Sep01.150724.20047@vpnet.chi.il.us>
- Date: 1 Sep 92 15:07:24 GMT
- References: <1992Aug31.232140.631@u.washington.edu>
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- gunthar@milton.u.washington.edu (Johannes) writes:
- >Hey I don't understand why more people don't want to get there hands on OS/2
- >so maybe right now you don't think you want it right now.
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- I've really given OS/2 a chance, but it has disappointed me. The
- video drivers stink (they're only beta, but...), it doesn't run my
- software, it's slow, and it blows up often.
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- >but how does 20 dollars sound to get yourself a copy.
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- That's only about a dollar a disk. I can buy blank HD floppies for
- less, and I don't have to cut the notches. That's getting close,
- though (plus with those disks you get a cardboard storage box.
- Hmmm...)
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- Gordon S. Hlavenka cgordon@vpnet.chi.il.us
- Don't forget: Dave Barry/Joe Walsh in November!
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