🚀 go-pugleaf

In article <RwiKzoHpvKzM092yn@skypoint.com>,
Richard Steiner <rsteiner@skypoint.com> wrote:
>Here in comp.os.os2.misc, os2@mistik.express.net (Mustafa Soysal MS57)
>spake unto us, saying:
>
>>UnTieCom(tm) got about 200 customers at most, a lot of them not regisreted. 
>>I haven't compiled the exact numbers.
>
>What's UnTieCom?  I've never heard of it, and I play around a lot with
>various utilities...  Then again, I registered SIO in 1993, so I don't
>look a lot at communications-related things.
>
>>Describe went under, and I hear Stardock is complaining....
>
>DeScribe, Inc. was managed in an "interesting" way, and they made a few
>very bad moves in the past which ended up alienating significant segments
>of their potential market (I avoided their word processor for almost two
>years before I decided to buy it because of one of their proposed schemes
>that they abandoned at the last minute before release).

Well, the worst mistake was the crashing demo version initialy put out. 
After that I didn't reconsider since I kept hearing crash reports with
the real product.

>
>>Let's move on to Windows as our finances permit.
>
>Heh.  I use Windows 95 a little here (I had little choice in obtaining
>it, since it came with my new machine), and it's not a good replacement
>for Warp 4 for me, which is why I consider my Windows 95 setup more of
>a plaything and spend 95% of my time in Warp.

Well, I can go WIndows 3.1 without having to switch until I have
everthing I need.  That's the main reason...Otherwise I would go Windows
NT or linux.

>
>Win95 is decent enough (*certainly* better than Win 3.1), and may have
>some application advantages, but it's FAR too limited as an environment
>in a number of areas that I'm used to.  I think *it* really needs a 32-
>bit command line, you know?
>
>-- 
>-Rich Steiner  >>>--->  rsteiner@skypoint.com  >>>---> Bloomington, MN
>      Written offline using PC Yarn + Yep + FTE under OS/2 Warp 4
>                            Run away!  Run away!



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Best Regards,

Mustafa Soysal

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