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- From: jdickins@cs.umr.edu (James Dickinson)
- Subject: Re: Some killer apps..was: economics of os2 for ibm
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- Date: Fri, 22 Jan 1993 08:23:19 GMT
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- In article <1993Jan21.192654.20452@sjsumcs.sjsu.edu> rick@sjsumcs.sjsu.edu (Richard Warner) writes:
- >Steve.Withers@bbs.actrix.gen.nz writes:
- >
- >>In article <1jh8g4$3fj@agate.berkeley.edu> jp1ek@sunc.shef.ac.uk writes:
- >>>
- [stuff deleted..]
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- >Well, the apps are starting to show up. I was at the Windows & OS/2
- >Conference yesterday (San Jose, CA) and IBM had the largest presence at
- >the show, all hyping OS/2. They had one booth full of ISV's
- >demonstrating their apps and most of them were '32-bit' according
- >to the vendors. IBM also had a booth specifically for vendors, a
- >training area, and a test-drive area where you could actually try out
- >some of the new OS/2 2.x apps. The biggest name vendor showing a
- >32-bit OS/2 2.x app was WordPerfect - WP 5.2 for OS/2 was being
- >shown publically for the first time.
-
- What was your impression of WP for OS/2? Did it use long character filenames?
- Any other relevant information?
-
- [more stuff deleted..]
- >touch the sacrosanct machines (fear of users seeing it crash?).
- >
- >
- >>--
- >>Steve Withers - Wellington, New Zealand |
- >>Steve.Withers@bbs.actrix.gen.nz | Space for rent.
- >>+64 4 478 4714 | - cheap rates, nice location.
- >>**** Happy user of OS/2 b2.1 **** |
-
- Jim
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