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Re: OS/2 dead? Yes, it is!

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From: Mustafa Soysal MS57
Date: Fri, 11 Apr 1997 00:00
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In article <F9WTz0E6AVEO092yn@momeraths.org>,
Sysop <MarchHare@momeraths.org> wrote:
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>In article <5idnui$65h@client2.news.psi.net>,
>os2@mistik.express.net (Mustafa Soysal MS57) wrote:
>>
>>Seeing the problem and accepting it is the first step to find a
>>solution.  I have no way about grabbing IBM by the ear to lead to
>>solutions.  I am doing my part in identifying and brining out the
>>problems.  OS/2 is not my product....the platform I still use.
>
>OK, why?  Why use it at all?  You have made various claims, most in this

I have already explained.  Check the archives.

>particular thread, relating to the instability of the platform, the 
>out-dated Toolkit, the quality of IBM's drivers on their own brand of 
>equipment, the quality of the file system, and yet, you still program 
>for it, are attending seminars about DB/2 and still hang around in an 
>OS/2 applications newsgroup.  I don't get it.

You never will.

>
>While I haven't met an operating system that did not have _some_ "fault"
>I did not like about it, I have dropped products for far less than most 
>of the things you complain about.  In fact, I would even update my 
>resume and find something else, if it were an integral part of my job 
>and I felt the way you come across as feeling about it.
>
>John
>
>-- 
>//------------------------------------------------------------------------
>// momerath@apk.net                    sevot yhtils eht dna ,gillirb sawT`
>// MarchHare@momeraths.org                 ebaw eht ni elbmig dna eryg diD
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>//                                            .ebargtuo shtar emom eht dnA
>                     In case of stupidity, break glass.

Best Regards,

Mustafa Soysal

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From: os2@mistik.express.net (Mustafa Soysal MS57)
Subject: Re: OS/2 dead? Yes, it is!
Date: 1997/04/11
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