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In <37145598.E9E7BACB@rds.ro>, Radu Trimbitas <radu@rds.ro> writes:
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>Rolan wrote:
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>> .....  Win95 has proven extremely unstable and not as robust for
>> my internet connection, I'll install Win98 and see if this is an improvement.
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>Don't do this! All my friends which tried Win98 have turned back to Win95 OSR2.
>98 is slow, buggy ( imagine that it's even buggyer then Win95!). That's not my
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  That is interesting because I set up a Win98 machine for a client 
and it works well - very smooth, quite fast and quite stable - will 
run for days on end without a hiccup . Would Radu like to elaborate 
- applications run, how many etc.?  Do these friends of his have 
crook hardware?  Since getting into the business of putting PCs 
together it is amazing (and aggravating causing the burning of
mid-night oil!) how stupid some hardware and hardware combinations 
will behave; and on the surface there is no rhyme or reason for it.

  I sympathise with Rolan and note that a major difficulty impeding 
the "saleability" of OS/2 is the restrictiveness of what software 
you can use.  One is constantly bumping into this.

  In my case my time is so fully committed that I don't have time or
much interest to move out of the range of applications I have been
using on my OS/2 machine for years.  So I don't have the problem
Rolan has but for potential customers yes it is a major impediment 
despite the rich range of software I can draw their attention to. 
This problem impedes gaining of mind-share.  This lack of mind-share
stops you even getting a toe hold of a potential customer's
attention.  At the end of the day human beings are driven by
emotions.  If that isn't there you can't sell anything!  This makes
earning money with OS/2 a dubious exercise.  That would have to be
the reason why so many vendors have stopped supporting OS/2.

  The continuing viability of OS/2 is in the hands of us current 
OS/2 users who have a determination to maintain and gain mind-share. 
The competition for mind-share is fierce are we up to the challenge?


Victor Bien
VCB Computing Alternatives (R)
Employing network marketing concepts to promote OS/2
The network is the channel (apologies to Sun).
Use and help promote OS/2 to your friends and associates and teach 
them to do the same!