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From: smustain@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu (Mike Mustaine)
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Subject: Re: OS/2 2.0 is here! READ THIS, you'll be impressed
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Date: 9 May 91 19:20:18 GMT
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>
>Actually - I worked in an OS/2 development division last summer,  and the
>people there weren't all that excited about 1.3.  It's faster than Windows,
>and has less reliability problems - but we all knew Windows was better
>marketed,  and even a kludgy DOS multitasking is still multitasking.  I
>really didn't see anyone "hot on OS/2" at that time,  since 2.0 was very far
>from completion.

Well, we were mainly using them as glorified 3270's to connect to 3090's (IMS
[ugh!] System Test) but a lot of the folks there loved it, and I remember 
reading one of the IBMnet newsgroups (OS2GOSPEL?) where there was a lot of 
pro-OS/2 stuff, and of course, the OS/2 disciples would raid the Windows
newsgroups and start OS/2 vs. Windows flame wars.

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