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Re: Tashika Modem - the Continuing Story, plus OS/2's Demise

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From: Tim Timmins
Date: Tue, 09 Dec 1997 00:00
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Tony Weddle wrote:
> 
> As I'd posted a few weeks ago, the modem works fine in Windows '95 and I'm using
> exactly the same IRQ and com port that I did with my previous modem under OS/2.
> I'm mystified but at least it now seems to work.
> 

Ah yes, I remember that. I'm pleased you got it sorted.

> 
> I would love it if you were right.  I was basing my comment on the front page
> story of last week's Computing where Nick Davis, the UK OS/2 product manager,
> was quoted as saying, "It is no longer being developed as a standalone ...
> product.  We are taking it down the road of network computing.  We see OS/2
> supporting ebusiness from now on."  The back page of this week's PC Week
> (admitedly not purely a news page) also implied that OS/2 was dead ("long live
> Linux").  I think this is a disastrous piece of news but not wholly
> unpredictable.
> 
> Tony Weddle

Those stories were just a re-hash of earlier stories which have already
been debunked by IBM. They tend to surface when bad news is coming out
about 95 or NT. For instance, turn to page 2 in Computing for bad news
about NT.
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From: Tim Timmins <tim.timmins@bcs.org.uk>
Subject: Re: Tashika Modem - the Continuing Story, plus OS/2's Demise
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