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From: Terje A. Bergesen
Date: Sun, 24 Sep 1995 00:00

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m...@primenet.com wrote:
>
>~Though I still don't think that Gates is man enough to swallow his pride and
>~sell OS/2 apps again, the ISVs on the OS/2 side should be *prepared* for 
>this.
>
>Why the heck would MS (or any other vendor) write an app for
>installed base of < 4M users?  Do the math, there's no major
>vendors writing OS/2 apps simply because the market's not
>big enough to be profitable.  It's not a technical or 
>religious debate, simply the reality.

This is pure and utter bullshit. I run OS/2 and NT only.
On OS/2 I run in PROTECTONLY=YES, which changes thins
in a way so that I CAN'T run DOS or Windows apps. On
NT I need to run several DOS apps to make it work.

And - by the way, where did you get the <4M number from
it is ridiculous.


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From: "Terje A. Bergesen" <terj...@login.eunet.no>
Subject: Re: Windows 95 & OS/2
Date: 1995/09/24
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