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From: tok@slammer.UUCP (Terry Kane)
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.misc,comp.windows.ms,comp.os.os2.misc
Subject: Re: OS/2 2.0 is here! (speed of OS/2)
Keywords: OS/2?
Message-ID: <940@slammer.UUCP>
Date: 9 May 91 14:47:49 GMT
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> Well, you maybe able to afford all of the OS/2 applications, BUT some of us
> aren't as rich or resourceful as you.  Take shareware products, some 
> shareware are some of the best work of arts, rivaling commerical developers.
> If you can't run your shareware in the OS/2, where can you run them in?  
> Probably mostly likely in the DOS compability box.  Do I expect most shareware
> developers to migrate to OS/2?  Of course NOT!.  What kind of shareware?  
> Games, utilities, application packages.

Well, you might think that the affordability of shareware is a good reason
to stick to dos, BUT some of us aren't ignorant of the growing wealth of
shareware products for OS/2.  Granted, there aren't fifty bulletin boards
in every major city carrying the good stuff, and there probably aren't
fifty bbses nationwide that do; but there are several excellent bboards
(e.g. OS/2 Shareware? fuzzy on the name but: +1-703-385-4325,0931) that
carry much free|share-ware that meets or exceeds dos equivalents.

Meeting or exceeding dos functionality and performance is the easy part.
Why? OS/2 is a superior base for applications - that's why!  I use perl,
TeX and related apps, byacc, flex, many unix workalikes on my home OS/2
machine - all FREEware!  There are really great shareware products out
there, and I think that local OS/2 bbses will start popping up as the word
gets out that OS/2 is a *good* thing.

IMHO you won't be needing many classes of dos shareware if you make the change
because base OS/2 makes many of those tools redundant.

Terry