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RE: more info on virus (ABSOLUTELY NO LBC)

To: spridgets@autox.team.net
Subject: RE: more info on virus (ABSOLUTELY NO LBC)
Date: Wed, 21 Jun 2000 20:41:18 -0400charset="iso-8859-1"
Cc: "'conan@ralvm8.vnet.ibm.com'" <conan@ralvm8.vnet.ibm.com>
Yeah I forgot about poor old OS/2.  I had a friend who tried to get Warp 4
to install on his machine for about a month.  He finally gave up and went
back to Windows.  And he was a programmer too!  Of course, his favorite
language was GW Basic...  I tried Linux for awhile, but gave up because it
didn't like any of my hardware.  I hear it's better now though.

IBM did to OS/2 what DEC did to the Alpha chip.  There's nothing like bad
planning.  They both must have used the same marketing company or something.
The college I went to migrated from a VAX cluster to a single processor
Alpha chip and the system was faster.  :-)  But DEC never marketed it
properly.

adrian

-----Original Message-----
From conan at ralvm8.vnet.ibm.com [mailto:conan@ralvm8.vnet.ibm.com]
Sent: Wednesday, June 21, 2000 7:40 PM
To: spridgets@autox.team.net
Subject: RE: more info on virus (ABSOLUTELY NO LBC)


>>they became the desktop home and office user system.  Nobody else stepped
up
>>to the plate, so the market picked Microsoft.  DOS was never meant to take

  There was OS/2 also, but IBM never did know what to do with PC stuff. :-)
Still don't -really- for that matter.
  And of course dear ol' MS had a lot to do with the original development of
OS/2 and by the time IBM took it over 100% and managed to get all the MS out
of it, it was too late.
  The fact that IBM never figured out it should be easy for non-programmers
to set up didn't help either.
  IMHO ;-) OS/2 is/was a MUCH better OS than Windoze could ever hope to be.
Though nowhere near perfect of course. :-)
    Ed in NC

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