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Re: OS/2 dead? Uh, no. read this.

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From: Richard Steiner
Date: Fri, 14 Mar 1997 00:00
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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).

>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.

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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From: rsteiner@skypoint.com (Richard Steiner)
Subject: Re: OS/2 dead? Uh, no. read this.
Date: 1997/03/14
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