RE: Win95 vs Lose95 -- MIDRANGE-L

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> Date: Fri, 06 Feb 98 00:21:16 -0500
> From: "John Carr" <74711.77@compuserve.com>
> To: "Midrange-L" <MIDRANGE-L@midrange.com>
> Reply-To: MIDRANGE-L@midrange.com
> Subject: RE: Win95 vs Lose95

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> Date: 2/5/98  9:02 AM
> 
> RE:   RE: Win95 - CA/400 session limit
> 
> Bob
> I'm sitting at home with a Lose95(read WIN95) machine without CA and it
> locks up at least 3 times a night.  Don'tcha think a multi-gazillion dollar
> company who spent 5(is it 10?) years developing this thing, could make it
> not lock up just because a single app hangs?  I know.. its not their fault.
> (Question - what is the prescribed corrective action to a WIN95 problem ?
> Answer -  FORMAT C: {as was explained to me via phone by the support staff})
> John
> 
> 

HI guys,

The solution is to junk Win95 and run a real operating system.  I have been 
running OS/2 Warp 4 for 
18 months with about 4 lockups in that time  -- mostly due to me loading some 
crap code from the 
Internet.  And this system is used a lot!

You can find acceptable alternatives to Microsquib products for almost any 
business application.  
Warp has great support for TCP; 5250 TELNET clients, a truly marvellous FTP 
folder supporting drag 
and drop, good support for Java, and much else all included in the price of the 
OS.  I use this to 
dial up client AS/400s and work from home.

The only Windows-based product I run is Quick Books because it has been 
"Australianised" and seems 
more suitable than MYOB which is also Windows-based.  I run that under WIN-OS2 
anyway.  Warp also 
has support for Win32s which gets me support for a fair number of the new 
Windows apps as well.  
There would be more if MS didn't keep changing the Win32s spec.

And don't give me any rubbish about IBM not supporting OS/2.  It will be 
supported for as long as 
enterprise clients require it and they're not all moving to NT.  Many of them 
have done that and are 
now "upgrading" to Warp.  Did you see the Bank of Argentina just bought 55,000 
licenses (10,000 Warp 
Server and 44,000 Warp client).  Doesn't sound dead to me! (I'll bet they got a 
good deal though.)

If you get sick of WindowsAnything move to Warp.  If enough of you do so the 
few items you might 
miss will soon get ported.  WindowsNT is just OS/2 reworked -- you didn't 
really think MS came up 
with that entirely on their own did you?

There are other choices of course; MacOS, or Linux if you're really brave (nice 
for pointy-heads at 
home but for your business -- maybe not).

Regards,
Simon Coulter.

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// FlyByNight Software         AS/400 Technical Specialists
// Phone: +61 3 9419 0175      Mobile: +61 3 0411 091 400
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// Windoze should not be open at Warp speed.
 

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