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Article #501Re: IS IBM UK STILL IN THE STONE AGE???
From: Stephen Davies
Date: Thu, 10 Sep 1992 00:42
Date: Thu, 10 Sep 1992 00:42
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george@minster.york.ac.uk writes: > After much frustration and strife, I have decided to drop OS/2 and return > to Win3.1/DOS and await the arrival of Windows NT. A lesson in patience > which I should have kept earlier! > > Why? Since installing OS/2 I have had constant problems running Windows > software and lack of decent driver support. Worse, IBM UK do not provide > a sensible and useful technical support group. Below is a copy of a letter I > sent IBM UK about various problems I've had running AmiPro under Win-OS/2. > I must emphasise that I had previously used AmiPro under Microsoft Windows > 3.0 earlier and had NO problems at all. The only new difference was OS/2. > p.p.s. I phoned Microsoft yesterday afternoon to ask about Windows NT, > and asked for a copy of their white paper on it. Guess what arrived > in this morning's post?? Only one guess allowed! I must say that I would have also been insulted by the letter that you received. That being said, I hope you are going to keep us informed about your experiences trying to run Ami under NT. The main similarity between Windows and Windows/NT is the name. They will have to perform much the same magic that IBM did in order to run Windows programs under NT. It is not clear why they should be more successful than IBM? The only thing in their favour is that they will (probably) be able to "thunk" the old Windows GDI calls into the new 32bit GDI interface, and thereby gain a performance advantage over OS/2. Regards, Steve Davies ---------- Stephen Davies, Compustat (Pty) Ltd, Cape Town steve@cstat.aztec.co.za
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!sparky!uunet!gatech!rpi!usenet.coe.montana.edu!news.u.washington.edu!uw-beaver!zephyr.ens.tek.com!psgrain!hippo!ucthpx!aim1!cstat!steve From: steve@cstat.aztec.co.za (Stephen Davies) Newsgroups: comp.os.os2,comp.os.os2.misc,comp.os.os2.programmer,comp.os.os2.apps Subject: Re: IS IBM UK STILL IN THE STONE AGE??? Message-ID: <R7ZTqB1w164w@cstat.aztec.co.za> Date: 10 Sep 92 00:42:52 GMT References: <714913121.20822@minster.york.ac.uk> Organization: Compustat (Pty) Ltd Lines: 34