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Troll Alert (Ron Findling) Mon, 16 Jun

Not a troll...just a reality check

Posted by: tsikes
Date posted: Mon, 16 Jun 1997

As for the rest of this whole debate - it certainly seems that Infoworld has some flawed methodology, questions, etc. However, the OS/2 folk should realize that Windows NT is eating OS/2 for lunch right now...its that simple. :-)

Why did you write that last line? Just to annoy people? True or not, it certainly has nothing to do with the topic at hand. It sounds like a troll to me...

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.

"Heck, even IBM is producing quite a few of their new products for Windows NT and not for OS/2. Even the most dense should be able to read the writing on the wall..."

Again, nothing to do with the topic at hand. Do you *want* people to flame you in response?

I think its quite relevant to a topic which has been widely discussed in this forum, i.e. the relevance of OS/2, how wonderful it is, and so on. There have also been quite a few derisive responses regarding Windows NT, which is not particularly on-topic either.

Rather than seeing flames, I'd be interested to see well reasoned responses that defend the opposing position. Feel free to give that a try. ;-)

Terry
tsikes@netcom.com


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Re: Not a troll...just a reality check (Ron Findling) Tue, 17 Jun

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