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In article <434mm3$b...@bubba.ucc.okstate.edu>, Commander Spock writes:
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> Msg-ID: <434mm3$b...@bubba.ucc.okstate.edu>
> References: <434484$3...@hq.hq.af.mil>
> Posted: Tue, 12 Sep 1995 19:21:12 GMT
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> Org.  : NCC1701
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> lun...@us.net (Jeff Kirvin) wrote:
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> >You know, someone else already mentioned this but it bears repeating.
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> >OS/2 has been "officially" declared dead for at _least_ four straight
> >years. 92, 93, 94 and now in 95.
>
> Hi Jeff, good point.  Os/2 has indeed been dead for about that long.
> Saw it twitch here and there, but now it's definately worm food.
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> >OS/2, the Samuel Clemens of Operating Systems.
>
> Yup, old Sam has been dead for quite awhile.
>
> >Jeff Kirvin
> >lun...@us.net
>
>         - Rich
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Not that im bashing anything, but if OS/2 is so "dead" then how come
there's quite a few bbs's in the USA and Canada here that run bbs's under
OS/2? At least here in British Columbia, Canada, there are quite a few
happy sysop's running OS/2 with thier bbs, like Maximus/2 for OS/2,
Pcboard, Telgard etc. In fact there's one BBS down here, named Miramax,
that does all this

(Taken from a BBS Listing for B.c)

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MIRAMAX #1              323-9698 - 28.8 V.34 USR/DS David Poon       RA
1 CD-Rom On-Line. International Messages & Files. 3 active BRE leagues.
Supports Atari, Falcon, Apple MacIntosh, IBM PC & OS/2. Bluewave & JCQwk
Off-Line Message reader. Free InterNet E-Mail. Message Networks includes:
AtariNet, NeST, FidoNet (plus all Message backbone & some File backbone),
SigNet, NeuralNet, InterSports, InterNet, UseNet, UserNet, RaceNet,
FishNet,
INGNet, VJACnet & Adultlinks. BBS covers over 700 Message bases & are
growing.
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MIRAMAX #2              323-1355 - 19.2 V.32b/ZYX   David Poon       RA
1 CD-Rom On-Line. International Messages & Files. 3 active BRE leagues.
Supports Atari, Falcon, Apple MacIntosh, IBM PC & OS/2. Bluewave & JCQwk
Off-Line Message reader. Free InterNet E-Mail. Message Networks includes:
AtariNet, NeST, FidoNet (plus all Message backbone & some File backbone),
SigNet, NeuralNet, InterSports, InterNet, UseNet, UserNet, RaceNet,
FishNet,
INGNet, VJACnet & Adultlinks. BBS covers over 700 Message bases & are
growing.
New users please call Miramax #1. Line 2 will only take donators calls
between
8PM to 12AM.
The only thing that's DOS is Remote Access(RA) that David Poon run's.
Everything else he run's is pretty much OS/2 util's. OS/2 may be dead or
getting close to it, but OS/2 is great for running a large bbs like David
Poon's. Although i'd love to see WIN95 try and handle 700 message bases and
midnight maintenance for a large bbs like that :-)