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From: sam@ncsuvx.ncsu.edu (Whad Upp)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: OS/2 Anyone?
Message-ID: <1899@ncsuvx.ncsu.edu>
Date: 14 Jun 88 13:21:00 GMT
References: <1866@ncsuvx.ncsu.edu> <216100037@trsvax> <575@hscfvax.harvard.edu>
Reply-To: sam@ncsuvx.UUCP (Whad Upp)
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In article <575@hscfvax.harvard.edu> pavlov@hscfvax.harvard.edu (G.Pavlov) writes:
>In article <216100037@trsvax>, johnm@trsvax.UUCP writes:
>> 
>> ..................................Unless the cost of OS2, the machines to run
>> it, and the development software are suddenly cut in half you can bet that you
>> will NEVER see a significant amount of free software for the system.
>> 
>> John Munsch
>
>
>  - likewise, we will never see a significant amount of free software for VAXen,
>    SUN, Xenix, et. al....... 
>
>  greg pavlov, fstrf, amherst, ny
> 


The Amiga developers develop the most free software because they have a truely
bad system. Anyone that spends much time with an Amiga gets hooked. It is 
unfortunate that it has not done more, but the reasons for that are obvious. 
However, the machine can run graphic circles around any other micro on the
market. And play sterio music at the same time. And all this while running
MSDOS in an AmigaDOS window. The Amiga had multi-tasking years ago. It is
a system ahead of it's time - and OS/2s.

And don't fool yourself, there is a load of public software for UNIX, and the
therefore Sun and Vaxen. The net is full of it. OS/2 on the other hand, is..., 
well, a... somewhat quite. It may just be a corporate OS like those big 
mainframe OSs. 


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