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  • Announcing the 32-bit Un

    From Joe Kovacs@1:221/1401 to Coridon Henshaw on Thu May 4 15:14:00 2000
    Coridon Henshaw to andrew graham

    On Saturday February 19 2000 at 21:23, andrew graham wrote to Coridon
    Henshaw:

    I believe the hope is that a free OS/2 with a free WPS would be more popular than Linux.

    <The sound you hear is me laughing my head off.>

    Aside from MS' strongarm tactics and IBM's stupidity, what
    killed OS/2 was the lack of hardware support and
    applications. Unless an OS/2 clone sprouts the ability to
    run Win32 programs better than WINE does, nothing will
    bring the OS back from the grave.

    OS/2's alive and well, thank you.

    Organized crime badmouths it. Like this.



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  • From David Noon@2:257/609.5 to Joe Kovacs on Tue Jun 6 13:22:22 2000
    Hi Joe & Coridon,

    Replying to a message of Joe Kovacs to Coridon Henshaw:

    Aside from MS' strongarm tactics and IBM's stupidity, what
    killed OS/2 was the lack of hardware support and

    OS/2's alive and well, thank you.

    [moderating]

    OS/2 is alive and well, at least in this echo and the OS2REXX echo. [I don't care about the rest of the world.] After all, we wouldn't be programming for OS/2 if it weren't alive on our systems. As a result, there is no need to pursue such a line of discussion any further in this echo or OS2REXX.

    Regards

    Dave

    Moderator, Fidonet OS2PROG and OS2REXX echoes

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