Subj : Re: OS/2 anyone.
To   : All
From : -= Usenet Legend Robert James =-
Date : Wed Jan 16 2013 05:01 pm

Reply-To: Matthew Moulton's Killfile.

On 05 Jan 2013; tholenbot glugged down some extra strong DXM
cough syrup and vomited all over Usenet. I am so pissed that
tholenbot selfishly hogged the whole bottle without sharing
some with me: 

> On Sat, 29 Dec 2012 12:07:45 -0500, Bob Campbell wrote:
> 
> 1> Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.advocacy
> 
> 1> There is really no reason to use OS/2 as your only computer these
> days. 1>    Unless you like banging your head against the wall.
> 
> Classic unsubstantiated and erroneous claim.
> 
> 1> However, it remains an interesting thing to play with.
> 
> Classic erroneous presupposition.
> 
> 1> The challenge of getting it to do anything useful is fun - assuming
> 1> you like challenges.
> 
> Classic unsubstantiated and erroneous claim.
> 
> 1> For example, I just got the networking going, and got Thunderbird
> 1> running here.
> 
> Good for you.
> 
> 1> I used to use OS/2 all the time, but that was 20 years ago. It got
> me 1> thru the Windows 3.0/3.1 era.
> 
> It can get you thru[sic] the Windows 8 era, too.
> 
> 1> OS/2 2.1 and 3.0 ran Win 3.1 and DOS apps better than Win 3.1 and
> 1> DOS.
> 
> Classic pontification.
> 
> 1> When Win 95 and NT 4 became available, I abandoned OS/2 since it
> was 1> clear IBM was also.   When Will Zachmann came to the same
> conclusion a 1> year or so later, everyone knew it was all over for
> OS/2. 
> 
> Classic unsubstantiated and erroneous claim.
> 
> 1> These days OS/2 is little more than a historical curiosity.
> 
> Classic unsubstantiated and erroneous claim.
> 
> 1> Along with others like the many Unix OSes (Coherent, Xenix etc.
> among 1> many others I had), the Apple Lisa, the Apple ///, TRS-80s
> and the 1> dozen or so OSes they had, CPM etc. etc.
> 
> What does that have to do with OS/2, Campbell?
> 
> 1> All gone, some nearly forgotten.
> 
> Unlike OS/2.

Classic unsubstantiated and erroneous follow-up. What does 
alt.usenet.kooks have to do with alt.test, tholenbot?

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