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From: tok@slammer.UUCP (Terry Kane)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
Subject: Re: Super VGA drivers for OS/2, and more news of OS/2 2.0
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Date: 2 May 91 20:20:25 GMT
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Well, it's final - even if IBM resumes the beta d/l bbs, you must have been
a subscriber to the NSC bbs before 0900 EDT on April 30 in order to be eligible
to download the beta system.  IBM *is* being generous if they resume the
downloading at all.

The issues involved have not been fully disclosed.  However, one very major
reason to limit the downloading is to prevent overloading the poor guy who
initiated the project in the first place.  This *is* a beta program for
those folks who have been active on the NSC bbs.  Their reports and comments
are being filtered by the tiny group of people who run the bbs - bug reports
are not, repeat *not*, going straight to Boca Raton softies.

I think that that is a pretty good reason to limit access in itself.

Remember: this beta download program was not initiated by some talking head
in the upper tiers of the old IBM's marketing hierarchy (it seems to me,
anyway :-); this is being advanced by a forward thinking OS/2 enthusiast who
wants to see OS/2 be the best product yet! from IBM.  I commend him.

I'm sorry that I mentioned it here at all.