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From: ford@hpmcaa.mcm.hp.com (Dan Ford)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
Subject: Re: os/2 2.0 Beta -- does any one have it?
Message-ID: <1991May07.185942.26469@hpmcaa.mcm.hp.com>
Date: 7 May 91 18:59:42 GMT
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hundt@samadams.princeton.edu (Tom Hundt) writes:
> kushner@ux5.lbl.gov (Gary Kushner) writes:
> 
> >I was just wondering if anyone actually got a complete copy of the Beta?
> >-Gary
> 
> If it was anything like the beta copy we had around here (before
> the downloading business started), I wouldn't want it (yet): ours
> was pretty easy to crash.  (Like, loading Word caused problems.)
> 
> I'm going to wait for 2.1 :-) :-)
> 

Well, I've been using a pre-release of OS/2 2.0 for over a year now, and I
haven't hung the machine in a long time (and BTW I load Word all the time).
I have found it a fairly solid platform.  Clearly there are still rough edges,
but even with those, after using it for some time now I wouldn't switch to
anything else.  The truth is that OS/2 is NOW a better DOS than DOS and it
will soon be a better Windows than Windows.  How much do you enjoy watching
that hourglass in Windows, I rarely see it for any noticeable time in OS/2 2.0.

Dan Ford