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- From: sip1@ellis.uchicago.edu (Timothy F. Sipples)
- Subject: Re: OS/2 and the Gravis Ultrasound
- Message-ID: <1993Jan24.171949.17927@midway.uchicago.edu>
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- Organization: Dept. of Econ., Univ. of Chicago
- References: <C1ABw4.6uw@undergrad.math.waterloo.edu> <1993Jan23.035338.11024@midway.uchicago.edu> <1jt80rINNa4@iskut.ucs.ubc.ca>
- Date: Sun, 24 Jan 1993 17:19:49 GMT
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- In article <1jt80rINNa4@iskut.ucs.ubc.ca> twong@civil.ubc.ca (Thomas Wong) writes:
- >>Gravis has made promises [for an OS/2 driver], but nothing has shipped.
- >>You should tell them why you are taking your business elsewhere.
- >I agree. You should email Gravis and tell them (a lot cheaper than long
- >distance call :) Especially if you get email for FREE :) ). In fact,
- >even if you're not an Ultrasound owner/owner-to-be/not even thinking
- >about getting anything at all, we should all write to Gravis to let them
- >know that OS/2 is for real, and is here to stay. They seem to be taking
- >OS/2 VERY lightly and we should let all computing companies know that
- >there are plenty of us out there using OS/2 and it is to THEIR benefit
- >th they should support OS/2. OS/2 still doesn't seem to get as accepted
- >among developpers as it should be (all the bad press haven't helped
- >either, and the media all jumping pover to Microsoft's side).
- >So whether you're thinking about getting an Ultrasound or not, please
- >email Gravis telling them that OS/2 is for real. And unless they get
- >their act together, especially since all these other soundcards are
- >supporting OS/2, you're taking your business elsewhere!
- >On the Gravis BBS, they said that OS/2 is very low in their priority
- >right now. This shouldn't be. Let's give them a good waking up with bulk
- >email. Here are their addresses...
- >Alan's, the guy, email address is 71333.350@compuserve.com.
- >AND
- >Chris Yuzik's, the salesguy, email address is yuzik@sfu.ca.
- >You should write to both addresses. Same message would be fine.
- >Let's let them know OS/2 has a large global base of loyal users,
- >and growing everyday!
-
- You may also want to remind Gravis that it isn't exactly a problem
- getting and OS/2 MMPM/2 compatible sound adapter. Creative Labs
- SoundBlasters come with OS/2 drivers, and MediaVision's are in beta.
- (There's also IBM's M-Audio adapter.) Since the competition seems so
- interested, perhaps they'll want to hop on the bandwagon, too.
-
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