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From: todd@pvi.UUCP (Todd Bradley x293)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
Subject: Re: Does 2.0 have any built-in toys/accessories?
Message-ID: <749@pvi.UUCP>
Date: 25 May 91 16:36:46 GMT
References: <740@pvi.UUCP> <11750012@hpnmdla.sr.hp.com>
Reply-To: todd@boulder.Colorado.EDU (Todd Bradley x293)
Organization: Precision Visuals Inc., Boulder, Colorado
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In article <11750012@hpnmdla.sr.hp.com> joeb@hpnmdla.sr.hp.com (Joe Barnhart) writes:
>In comp.os.os2.misc, todd@pvi.UUCP (Todd Bradley x293) writes:
>
>  |  I'm talking about things like Write,
>  |  Terminal, the cardfiler, and, of course, Solitaire 
>
>C'mon, Solitaire is the only _really_ useful piece which comes with 
>Windows 3.0!  Actually, MS has tried to use their much-ballyhooed
>"WLO" porting facility on these programs at least twice.  Both times
>they created buggy programs which weren't worth the cost of a 
>download (from what I hear).

I've never heard this story.  Interesting...

>OS/2 v2 won't need "ported" version, as it will run Windows stuff
>native.


But this assumes that you have both Windows AND OS/2.  Most users
(as has been said here again and again) will probably feel like
if they have one, they don't need the other.  And even if MS
ported the Windows toys to OS/2, I'm sure they wouldn't give
them away free to OS/2 users.



Todd.

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