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From: lairdkb@mentor.cc.purdue.edu (Kyler Laird)
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.misc,comp.windows.ms,comp.os.os2.misc
Subject: Re: OS/2 2.0 is here! READ THIS, you'll be impressed
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Date: 3 May 91 21:15:09 GMT
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In article <1991May3.171742.9966@serval.net.wsu.edu> wbonner@yoda.eecs.wsu.edu (Wim Bonner) writes:
>One thing to think about here, not really to say one way or another, but 
>definitely think about, is that people who run OS/2 will be "using" os/2.  How 
>many people Using windows are just using it as a task switcher, or glorified 
>DOS Shell, to continiue using DOS?

...or paper weight/book end.  How many of us have multiple copies of Windows
that we don't use?  I got four copies included with new machines.  It's getting
harder to find a machine that doesn't get a MS mouse and Windows 3.0 tacked on
to it.

Sure, there are X million copies of Windows 3.0 sold to date, but how many of
them were sold by 'force'?

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Kyler Laird              I'm  the NRA/NRA-ILA         lairdkb@mentor.purdue.edu