From: mikeh@microme.uucp (Michael L. Hasenfratz)
Subject: Re: Excel 4.0? Word 2.0?
Organization: Micro Memory Inc., Chatsworth, Ca.
Date: Fri, 4 Sep 92 16:21:09 GMT

In article <ANDRZEJ.92Sep3094314@bcars268.bnr.ca> andrzej@bnr.ca (Andrzej Bieszczad) writes:
>In article <1992Sep2.213046.25861@csc.ti.com> fritz@ra.csc.ti.com (Fritz Whittington) writes:
>
>   The point is that there is often a steep learning curve to using *any*
>   of these programs, and there is also an investment in data-entry time
>   that you have made.  Finally, if there are lots of other people using
>   things like Excel and WfW, you sometimes need to exchange files with
>   them.  (That's mainly why I have WfW myself, even though I don't
>   prefer using it.)  
>
>   This means that if we would really like to spend more of our time in
>   OS/2, and less time re-booting into Windows or WINOS2, we would like
>   to eventually (say at upgrade time) be able to get OS/2 versions of
>   those programs.
>
>Oh come on, WfW and Excel are extremely easy to use. It takes time to
>discover all features, but you can start working - efficiently - at
>once with easy stuff (the same I would say about PowerPoint).  Anybody
>who says that those MS products are bad should try them. They are
>excellent.
>
>I would gladly use OS/2 for running Windows packages, if OS/2 was not
>so buggy (wrt running Windows in SVGA and some other annoying
>problems). I invested several hundred of dollars in Windows software

	I must be 'VERY LUCKY', as I've been using the 800x600x16 'seam-
less' drivers here at work since June something, and have *ZERO* problems
with either WP5.1 for Windows, Excel 4.0 for Windows, and an Windows
based FPGA compiler by Lattice.

         The biggest *PAIN* has been by software 
types who forget to close the connection to the LPT ports when they
check for 'Dingle-Berries' during use. When two programs try to get to
the same port (without EVER releasing it), OS/2 says 'WHOA!'. So we
have to exit one, then start the other.

>(if OS/2 2.0 was here two years ago, I would buy stuff for OS/2), so I
>am not very eager to spend another couple of hundreds on new packages
>for OS/2. It will take some time before they are as polished as the
>Windows counterparts. However, if the incoming CSD brings a bug free
>version (well, almost bug-free, since a completely bug-free software
>is yet to be seen), I will buy any new application for OS/2 (like
>Borland C++), and perhaps in 1-2 years I will upgrade the rest of the
>Windows applications.

	The ONLY reason I still have DOS on this machine (OS/2 is in
'Dual-boot') is because *ONE* program I have to use will *NOT* allow
any other memory manager than itself to be in control. Though, they
are supposed to release a Windows version this FALL. (I've been bugging
them to try and make sure it will be OS/2 capable).


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Mike Hasenfratz - WA6FXT * mikeh@uMEM.COM or uunet!microme!mikeh
Micro Memory Inc.
Chatsworth, Ca. 91311