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daveacg@interlog.com (Dave Glue) writes:
>On Sat, 06 Jan 1996 20:08:46 -0800, Remy Saville <rem@guild.bc.ca>
>No, Nashville will likely be released before mind-96.  Minor upgrades,
>nothing spectacular.  It's basically the "fix pack", and why not name
>it Win96 is the process?  People aren't going to like buying a "95"
>product in 96, and MS knows that.

Not to mention that naming it Win96 offers them the added revenues from
*selling* this ("basically") fix pack...
I wonder how people would react if car vendors acted the same way:
You buy a car that says it has ABS (anti blocking system, English?), but when
you need it (and to put it in Jerry Pournelle-lingo, you need it badly) and
stomp on the brakes, they turn out to hung by plastic and just break. After
having been dismissed from County General Hospital (*if* you're lucky), you
complain to the vendor, which says: "oh, you can buy this year's model, it
fixes that problem". Who would smack this vendor in the face?

>>Why does nobody compare OS/2 to win95 or copland?  Its better than win95, 
>>better than what I hear about copland, and its out now, with a nice update 
>>due out in a few months. (Merlin)
>Software.  Industry support.  

This is hardly intelligable English, but it sure smells like the MS party line
of "no software for OS/2", which is *only* true if the final criterium for there
to be "software" is the existence of MS Office...
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