Re: BIG/bad news from IBM

[DAsmussen@xxxxxxx]

Don,

In a message dated 98-09-16 22:31:28 EDT, you write:

> Frankly, even though I feel for the guy's who are actually enduring the
>  pain of OS/2, I found it to be about as useless as a g-string in a
>  blizzard....and have avoided it cuz I had a heckuva time getting all those
>  windows apps WHICH WERE SUPPOSED TO RUN ON WARP, ETC!!!!

I don't know about _that_, Don.  Once I got the environment variables (memory,
buffers, files, etc.) tweaked right, those Windows programs run better on my
OS/2 2.1 machine at the client site than they do my NT machine at home!  I
think that OS/2 gets a bad rap, more often than not, for poorly written
Windows programs and the fact that it doesn't set those environment variables
properly by itself.  Besides, when all the Windoze platform folks lose Rumba
when the network goes down, my little COM Manager still chugs 5250'ly away!

JME,

Dean Asmussen
Enterprise Systems Consulting, Inc.
Fuquay-Varina, NC  USA
E-Mail:  DAsmussen@aol.com

"I don't know the key to success, but the key to failure is trying to please
everybody." -- Bill Cosby (another Bill should take this to heart)
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