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From: byu@csri.toronto.edu (Benjamin Yu)
Subject: Re: OS2 coming on strong (pc-rag)
Message-ID: <1991May23.115048.1212@jarvis.csri.toronto.edu>
Organization: CSRI, University of Toronto
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Date: 23 May 91 15:50:48 GMT
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In article <9105231120.AA92757@f170.n771.z3.fidonet.org> Steve_Lesner@f261.n141.z1.fidonet.org (Steve Lesner) writes:
# 
# I've 
# seen the promised land, and in no way, shape or form is it Windows.  And yet,
# Windows is all anyone talks about.  Why?  God only knows.  Maybe its a 
# conspiracy.  But I think a lot of it is mis-interpreted (not really mis-
# quoted) information.  So what PC-Mag and other mags need to reflect upon, is 
# not what they are writing, but what the hell the users that read it are 
# reading out of it!  Its called perspective, and PC Mag is telling truths, 
# granted, but NOT IN THE PROPER PERSPECTIVES!
# 

Well, I was debating whether to develop a piece of software for Windows or 
OS/2 PM.  I happen to have a development kit for OS/2 PM and the many wonderful
things I have heard about OS/2 2.0 make me want to go the OS/2 route and buy
a copy of OS/2 1.3.  Then I wanted to use Adobe Illustrator, Ventura, Word
etc. in a windowing enviornment also, but the problem is none of these are
available in OS/2 PM  (may be I am wrong, I hope I am wrong because I still
think OS/2 is a more logical OS than DOS + Windows.) ... and Illustrator only
works in Windows.  

So I guess unless OS/2 supports as many applications as Windows, the public
will still favour Windows unfortunately!


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Benjamin Yu
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