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Wim Verveen (wver...@xs4all.nl) wrote:
: In article <kremeDB...@netcom.com>,
: kr...@netcom.com (Cerebus The Aardvark) wrote:
: > Joshua Cyr <jm...@christa.unh.edu> writes:
: > >again).  This is what most home users are looking for.  Compatability, 
: > >ease of use, stability in the future (OS/2 has always looked shaky, 
: > 
: > I'm sorry, but this is obviously untrue; if it were the case, the entire
: > DOS platform would have imploded about 12 years ago.  There is nothing
: > stable, compatible, or easy about MS-DOS.
: > 
: > Heck, there never has been.
: > 
Actually, the reason why MS-DOS was the product of choice is because 
EVERY system (with few exceptions) with a 80x86 chip at the heart of it 
CAME with it.  Same is true of Windows.  Because of the way MS structured 
its contracts, so that the manufacturers paid them whether or not they 
used DOS or Windows.  So, when a superior OS came along, i.e. Geoworks, 
no one would bundle their systems with it, no one would make software for 
it, so it died quickly.  Same is true of OS/2.  Very few systems are 
bundled with it.  Little software is available for it.  IBM did make 
quite a few mistakes with Warp, which is superior to Win 95 in many ways, 
which is why I don't use it.  If they 1) debugged it a bit more, 
ESPECIALLY the various drivers and 2) had some 3rd party companies wi 
with OS/2 specific software ready to go, it would be competitive.


: > 
: > Os/2 is the superior product, but Bill Gates and the Microsquish propoganda
: > machine has been spreading enough cash to get their lies out.
: > 
: > I'm shocked that people are actually considering purchasing Win95 when they
: > know for a fact they willl have to purchase a bug update in a month.

: I'm sorry, you're not being realistic. If you say OS/2 is superior in
: multitasking, I agree. If you say superior in stability, I agree in certain
: cases. But windows 95 is superior in ease of use, ease of installation
: plug and play, networking and support by software venders. Also it is most
: compatible and has the most hardware support.
: All in all OS/2 might be the better product for you, but it is certainly
: not superior.

...OS/2 is superior in stability in that if a particular process crashes, 
the rest will keep running.  It is not in the fact that the drivers are 
very buggy.  Win 95 will win this battle because 1) every sytem will come 
with this in short order, 2) it has been thouroughly tested and is 
relatively bug-free (it is the beta testing and tweaking that made it 
came out this late in the game), 3) it already has the apps...which will 
all be out next month.