Re: Win95 and games: good news...

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From: jlwo... Jeffrey Lee Woodall
Date: Thu, 20 Apr 1995 00:00

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Worth Sparks (Worth....@RHTelCo.Com) wrote:
: In <NEWTNews.3773...@shore.net>, D...@shore.net writes:
: >Not to mention, according to the latest PC-Week, IBM has announced that they 
: >have started supporting Win95.  They've sent people to Redmond for training. 
: >Even IBM knows that Win95 will be a force in the industry, and aren't blindly 
: >ignoring it.

: I just wish Microsoft would act as professionally as IBM and take
: measures to support OS/2 which is already, as Bill Gates himself
: has said recently (if I remember correctly), "a force to be
: reckoned with."

What would be the point?  At that point, it would be like choosing 
between a Misubishi Eclipse or a Plymouth Laser.  Some damn thing, 
different looks.  Most people really are not interested in running OS/2 
apps.  During the 4 months I used Warp, I never bought an OS/2 native app.
None if them looked very good, really.
JEff

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From: jlwo...@unity.ncsu.edu (Jeffrey Lee Woodall)
Subject: Re: Win95 and games: good news...
Date: 1995/04/20
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