From: jja@wsl.ie (John J. Allen)
Subject: Re: What IBM has said about OS/2 2.0
Organization: Project Papyrus, AIRAID, Dublin, Ireland
Date: Mon, 28 Sep 1992 15:30:10 GMT

bangell@cs.utah.edu (bob angell) writes:
: In article <1992Sep26.121749.5641@wsl.ie> jja@wsl.ie (John J. Allen) writes:
: >petesk@microsoft.com (Pete Skelly) writes:
: >: In article <1992Sep22.111233.8995@wsl.ie> jja@wsl.ie wrote:
: >: > brian%jaguar.cs.utah.edu@cs.utah.edu (Brian Sturgill) writes:
: >: > :.......
: >: > 
: >: > A load of shit that I'm not interested in hearing. Please give up
: >: > all this constant IBM can't make it stuff. IBM will make it, maybe not
: >:                                              ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^pro IBM
: >: > on your schedule, but then I don't give a damn about your schedule.
: >: > 
: >: > I'm prepared to wait for something better than WindowsNT.
: >:  ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ANTI-MS
: >: > 
: >: > Also when it comes to missing ship dates Microsoft are better than most,
: >:   ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ANTI MS
: >: > where is the NT that was supposed to ship 1Q92. 
: >: ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ANTI MS
: >: Well I can tell you
: >: > where it is, it's NotThere that's where it is.
: >: ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ANTI MS
: >: > 
: >: > Also this an and OS/2 advocacy group not an ANTI-OS/2 group.
: >: 
: >: Yeah, Brian, This is OS/2 advocacy, thich means, in laymans terms, 
: >: ANTI-MS.  Brian, notice how jja made at least four attempts to flame
: >: MS in this post.  Notice how jja also only supports IBM once, and
: >: supports the OS/2 product zero times.
: >: 
: >: Brian, maybe you should follow suit with these OS/2 guys and stop
: >: putting real information in your posts.  And stop posting about
: >: products and start flaming the companies instead.
: >: 
: >: ;)
: >: petesk@microsoft.com
: >: My Opinions...
: >
: >Sorry to repost all of this but it is necessary.
: >
: >That post was not an ANTI-MS post but an ANTI-BRIAN post. Brian is
: >fundamentally a PRO-MS person and I was just trying to balance things
: ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
: 
: This is bull-shit!  Brian is just trying to be objective in which software
: meets all of his needs....he has told me that the WPS and other systems are
: extremely rought (I agree) and other seemingly pro-MS statements, however, 
: it *DOES* not make him or me pro-MS!
: 
: >out by being a PRO-IBM person.
: >
: >Please note that in my applcation development I support DOS,Windows and
: >OS/2 so I don't have a solid BIAS towards anybody.
: >
: 
: same with me.  no bias here.
: 
: >From a programming standpoint my OS/2 preferences are the PM API and
: >with Version 2.0 the new WPS which has no equivalent in MS-Windows.
: >
: >I have no doubt the MS will come up with the goods on Windows NT,
: >including an object oriented shell etc. but that does not directly
: >imply that IBM are doomed, that OS/2 is dead or that I'm a gobshite
: >for not going down the one TRUE path that NT is. 
: >
: >In fact BRIAN sounds like a UNIX pusher and we've plenty of those around 
: >here with an unjustified hate of Windows, OS/2 and for that matter anything
: >that is not UNIX.
: 
: regardless of how Brian sounds....what does it matter to push one OS over
: another....GET A LIFE!

I don't spend my time pushing one OS over another but Brian does. If he stops
pushing NT as hard as hell then I'll stop complaining.
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