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Re: The number of OS/2 users

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From: Neil Zampella
Date: Wed, 26 Mar 1997 00:00
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In message <5h8lkh$fk0@client3.news.psi.net> - os2@mistik.express.net
(Mustafa Soysal MS57)25 Mar 1997 13:57:37 GMT writes:
:>
:>In article <5h5p78$4n$1@darla.visi.com>, Peter Drumm <pdrumm@dwave.net> wrote:
:>>In message <PtWNzsbnbFpP089yn@ibm.net> - jamesk@ibm.net (James
:>>Knott)Sun, 23 Mar 1997 12:41:35 -0500 writes:
:>>:->The product which I bought from him is UnTieCom, a very useful utility, which 
:>>:->allows you to use a com port for other apps, while waiting for incoming faxes 
:>>:->etc.  When a call came in, UnTieCom could be used to tell Faxworks to receive 
:>>:->one fax, and then release the port.
:>>:->
:>>:->However the latest release of Faxworks eliminates the need for UnTieCom in my 
:>>:->system.
:>>:->
:>>
:>>Well that pretty much explains it. He writes a program, sells a few
:>>hundred copies, then when it's no longer needed -everything- about
:>>OS/2 is BAD, BAD, BAD. Sour grapes, anyone?
:>
:>My main complaint is and was that OS/2 doesn't have the stability, and
:>IBM isn't fixing it.
:>
:>As for UnTieCom, FaxWorks3.0 is just a recent release compared to how
:>lond UnTieCom was available, and the market wasn't really there since
:>day one.  My sour grapes isn't about UnTieCom didn't sell, it is that I
:>am stuck with a junk platform (junk because IBM doesn't fix the damn
:>bugs - hence doesn't support it).  I don't even want to consider
:>developing software for OS/2 because there will be so much I will have
:>to point at IBM, and I know they aren't going to fix anything.  It is a
:>futile platform.  When Advocates whomanaged to run down a magazine come
:>here and try to hype users away from the reality of IBM, I do get upset
:>about their lies.  Would you not?
:>
:>Look, they even removed me from the os2-l list because I was exposing
:>their lies....this is after removals from teamos2-l, os2-isp, os2-tr.
:>
:>>
:>>pdrumm@dwave.net <http://www.dwave.net/~pdrumm>
:>>Using OS/2 Warp 4!
:>>Wausau, WI. 44d 58m 00s N x 89d 36m 45s W
:>>All opinions are mine alone, you go get your own!
:>>
:>
:>Best Regards,
:>
:>Mustafa Soysal
:>
:>--
:>-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
:>Mustafa Soysal               (313) 741-1844 Voice                      TeamOS/2
:>MISTIK Systems               (313) 741-1937 Fax          Author of UnTieCom(tm)
:>PO Box 7064                                        Authorized Motorola Reseller
:>Ann Arbor, MI 48107-7064, USA                            os2@mistik.express.net
:>               Online catalog:  http://www.express.net/mistik/
:>-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
:>


Er .. they wouldn't have removed you from those lists because you were
annoying other readers of the lists now, would they ??? 


Nah ... couldn't be true .... BTW ... you just joined my killfile list.



Neil Zampella

Why do I use OS/2 ... because I like choice !!
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Subject: Re: The number of OS/2 users
Date: 1997/03/26
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