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Posted by: w nau
Date posted: Mon, 16 Jun 1997

I wrote it in response to the numerous posts I'd just read which still seemed to be lost in the OS/2 reality distortion field of yore...the "over 10 million installed base" claims etc. etc. etc. In case you hadn't noticed, most of the folk posting here seem to be OS/2 fans. In general, they appear to be the only ones who care about this entire debate. Most others appear to ascribe the usual level of relevance to this entire award thing, i.e. approximately zero.
If your intent was merely to throw in a balance then I can understand. However...

There is a substantial installed base. In fact it's much larger then the NT installed base. I don't know why this important, but you brought it up.

Of course OS/2 "fans" (you should give Sandy lessons on word choice) care more. They're the ones that have been "attacked". Most others don't care because the magazine didn't go after them. It's no surprise that OS/2 fans are more vocal. They were singled out. Even if they wern't, the under dog is often more vocal. They feel they need to be in order to be represented.

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