From: birchall@pilot.njin.net (Shag)
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.pcgeos
Subject: Spreading the word to !clue vendors...
Summary: Send your favorite vendor a clue for Christmas.
Keywords: Nice folks, but window-centric
Date: 23 Nov 92 21:19:20 GMT
Organization: Screaming in Digital, the Queensryche Digest


Earlier this year I bought a high-speed modem from PC Connection in NH.  I've
had a lot of fun with it, it's a wonderful unit, their customer service people
are great, I'd be their sex slave any day, etc.  I have nothing against them.

Today I received some mail from them... an offer.  The type I've been seeing
an awful lot of lately.

They wrote:

>Dear PC Connection Customer,
>
>Are you still word processing in DOS? Well, then, we just have one
>simple question:
>
>		Why are you still torturing yourself?
>
>Word processing in Windows is easier to learn and so much more powerful.
>Especially with Ami Pro 3.0, the Windows word proceessor ranked #1 by
>Software Digest, that lets you combine text, pictures, symbols, and
>colors and print them to high-impact perfection.  And now we've put
>together a deal with Lotus that makes it really fun and really 
>inexpensive to make the switch.

They went on to offer me $250 worth of Windows software and a $50 sample
package from Paper Direct, all for $104.

In a few days, they will get back their little return-request envelope.
They will open it, expecting just one more acceptance. 
They will, instead, find my letter.  I hope they don't throw it out.
--------------------------Excerpt from Letter--------------------------

	Today, I received an offer to upgrade to Ami Pro for Windows.
Initially, I thought it was from Lotus, but then I realized it was
from PC Connection.  I compliment you on the apparent cooperation with
Lotus in making this offer, but - through no dislike for either Lotus 
or PC Connection - I am unable to accept it, despite being a writer in
every sense of the word, and having a great deal of respect for Ami
Pro.  The reason is really quite simple: my PC has been declared a
"Microsoft-Free Zone."

	My system is a '286-based PC "clone," with a VGA-monochrome
monitor, 4 megs of RAM, an 80 meg Quantum hard drive, mouse, and the
extremely wonderful modem mentioned above.  I am fully aware that I
could, if I so desired, "run" Windows 3.1 on the system.  However,
having seen Windows on '386 and '486 machines, I must say that it 
would hardly be "running" on my system.  "Shambling" and "plodding"
are among the words I find more accurate.

	Instead of using Windows, I use - and am quite pleased with -
GeoWorks software, based on the PC/GEOS operating system.  This
software, written in object-oriented assembly language, provides me
with full pre-emptive multitasking, multithreading, transparent memory
management, and a Motif GUI.  It also runs quite nicely on systems as
"obsolete" as a PC/XT with 512k of memory.  On my "beefed-up" '286, it
easily outperforms Windows running on a friend's '386-40.

	Thus far, the third-party support for GEOS has been somewhat
lacking.  However, version 2 of GEOS is supposed to be released in the
next quarter, and my contacts in the industry tell me that
considerable support is waiting in the wings for that version.  I
sincerely hope that Lotus will release Ami Pro for GEOS at that time,
and that you will send me an upgrade offer for it when they do.

	Thanks again from a satisfied customer who just scorns Windows,

-----------------------------End Excerpt-------------------------------

I hope they'll find it interesting, and I hope you all find it amusing.
AND, I hope Lotus releases Ami Pro for GEOS! :)

-Shag

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