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From: Illya Vaes
Date: Thu, 21 Sep 1995 00:00

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fut...@eskimo.com (Tim Gerchmez) writes:
>In article <43e6qb$o...@calweb.calweb.com>, morpheus@calweb.com@calweb.com 
>says...
>>retail outlets.  But if anyone thinks Win95 has more aps I direct them to
>>Indelible Blue's catalog.  They are the largest mail-order house for OS/2
>>software and they have pages upon pages of OS/2 applications.
>Most of them are either ridiculously expensive, and/or bad ports of Windows 
>apps.  I've seen those Indelible Blue catalogs.  $40-$50 for a cheapo screen 
>saver (I think it was called Window Washer) with one module?  Come on.

Bullshit, you don't know anything about OS/2 apps. Sort of typical that a
Windows user would look at screen savers as apps, though.
How'bout a Word Processor that blows the doors, hood *and* Windows off of
Word for $49.95? One to five you can't name it.

>>    The reason OS/2 applications are not in the retail outlets en force is
>>because the retail managers don't think there is a demand.
>Close.  OS/2 applications are not in the retail outlets because there *ISN'T* 
>a demand.  As many have stated, OS/2 users don't like upgrading, they like 
>keeping what works.  This very philosophy is helping to kill OS/2.

Sure, keep dreaming.
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Illya Vaes  (iv...@hr.ns.nl)
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From: Illya Vaes <iv...@hr.ns.nl>
Subject: Re: Windows 95 & OS/2
Date: 1995/09/21
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