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From: cs169054@cs.brown.edu (Peter Golde)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2
Subject: Re: OS/2 PM Programming
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Date: 9 Dec 89 20:38:17 GMT
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In article <628894921.26415@minster.york.ac.uk> paulb@minster.york.ac.uk writes:
>On reflection, I feel that OS/2 has been given a very raw deal by the
>press, which it doesn't deserve at all.
>
>What does anyone else think?
>
>Paul Butcher
>JANET:paulb@uk.ac.york.minster

Of course it has.  As have most things that are pretty good.  It is
far easier and more exiting to report failures than successes.  Especially
when the reporter porbably knows diddly-squat about what he/she is writing.
If they really knew computers, they wouldn't be writing for
some magazine, they'd be working for some computer company.  
--PeterG