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Article #2104Re: OS/2 vs Win'95(or '96)
From: khc... Oliver Chung
Date: Fri, 23 Jun 1995 00:00
Date: Fri, 23 Jun 1995 00:00
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-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- jord...@benji.Colorado.EDU (JORDAN SPENSER AARON) wrote: [delete] >Stay away from OS/2. You'll thank me a year from now when all the cool >games are Windows 95 specific. But he will regret it by the fall of _this_ year when all the cool OS/2 specific games are released. BTW, does MS now prevents stores from selling Win95 to OS/2 users? Why not buy Win95 _when_ those cool games are here? >> If you install windows 95 somewhere other than the windows directory, >>and you press F4 at startup, it will bring you back to DOS 6.XX and windows >>3.1X. OS/2 boot manager is better than this but joe schmoe is not going >>to be able to figure that one out >>trust me, i deal with these people all day long. >Have you read any computer gaming magazines lately. Lots of talk about >new Windows 95 specific games. OS/2 on the other hand? Stick with the Oh, OS/2 on the other hand has multithreaded, non-cheating AI strategy game, GalCiv for about 8 months now. Entrepreneur and Avarice pending this fall, their open beta ships within a couple weeks. Win95 games? When? This time next year, _perhaps_. Keep on waiting, patience is a virtue. >Microsoft stuff. All the crap you hear from the OS/2 zealots is just >overhyped propoganda. They can talk about Bill Gates all they want. It seems Win95 is closer to overhyped propaganda, even MS admitted that Win95 is overhyped. >Everyone in this business is playing King of the Mountain and will do >anything to knock off the current King, Mr. Gates. >While all the OS/2 zealots are foaming from the mouth about what evil >thing Microsoft is doing next, I'll be happily playing all of my cool new >Windows 95 specific games. Tell us about those Win95 specific games when you can buy it, OK? You look more like foaming in the mouth right now talking about non-existant games on non-existant platform. Meanwhile, the rest of us will be happily playing _DOS_ games while you wait. [follow-ups to comp.os.os2.advocacy, comp.os.ms-windows.advocacy] ______ Oliver Chung > My opinions are my own < > Happy Warp user < PGP Key fingerprint: 3E 86 59 AD 08 35 BE 54 DF 63 B9 F8 F7 8B 10 3B -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: 2.6.2 iQCVAwUBL+sGtXNBYa8g7KHRAQF8TgP+MTrnwlE/WV05DtXbsc0+ijAchcuADLVO 97Sbu1XtpHSxjtqeapapoZgjVyYswQAweVjyK9z21Zgkv8/9T2xx1ms/TDqDhw4N WfWIk0OSYdKSPd8l9224xIGnx+3hwgl/5CaswJ8l9y/0E7D6bMSoxmND329docUw RddAsBrhATM= =YfIk -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
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From: khc...@pacific.mps.ohio-state.edu (Oliver Chung) Subject: Re: OS/2 vs Win'95(or '96) Date: 1995/06/23 Message-ID: <yZv6vg6Zq9uN083yn@pacific.mps.ohio-state.edu> X-Deja-AN: 104867923 references: <3q8ngd$rej@cville-srv.wam.umd.edu> organization: Dept of Physics, The Ohio State University followup-to: comp.os.os2.advocacy, comp.os.ms-windows.advocacy newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.games.action,comp.sys.ibm.pc.games.adventure,comp.sys.ibm.pc.games.rpg,comp.sys.ibm.pc.games.strategic,comp.sys.ibm.pc.games.f MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit