🚀 go-pugleaf

Glad to hear that OS/2 Warp is selling well around the world.
I heard that the newspaper writer for the New York Times who
blasted OS/2 Warp IS a co-author of the (Bill) "Gates" biography book.
Oh well, there goes an unbiased product evaluation :)

Roger Louie
OS/2 for the PowerPC

p.s. Not an official IBM spokesperson.



In <CzGvwL.AsA@actrix.gen.nz>, stevew@actrix.gen.nz writes:
>In <3aa5o1$2kd@nntp.crl.com>, Victor Healey <vhealey@crl.com> writes:
>>
>.................
>
>>Why must those of us with a great new operating system even run
>>windows? Os/2 has its own graphical interface but it is no good
>>unless a buyer can run 16 bit windows with it. Sure a few people
>>will buy it for what it is a 32 bit multitasking system but for
>>the most part none will unless it can run windows.
>>
>>Me I wouldn't buy it as a 32 bit multitasking system because it is a joke.
>>Just one misbehaving program can lock you out of your keyboard
>>and mouse! I know because I have tried os/2 warf 3.0.
>>
>>Os/2 WARF 3.0 is more like a super windows shell then a valuable operating
>>system and that is why it is having a difficult time in the market 
>>place. Still it is a great low end multitasking system for 8 meg pc's
>>and probably the only one that sorta runs on a 4 meg pc. IMHO :>)
>>Vic
>
>Victor
>
>OS/2 Warp 3.0 is doing *very* well in the market place. The posts seen 
>here about shops being sold out in minutes - all over the place - bear this
>out. 
>
>There is nothing I am aware of to support your assertion to the contrary, other
>than a couple of magazines who have obvious and long-standing biases in
>favour of Microsoft operating systems and applications. The press is very
>positive. Outside the US it is even better - where few read PC Mag or PC 
>Week.  
>
>Steve
>
>
>//----------------------------------------
>// Steve Withers - Wellington, New Zealand
>// stevew@actrix.gen.nz / swithers@vnet.ibm.com
>// OS/2 Warp..............It's only logical
>