From: mykes@amiga0.SF-Bay.ORG (Mike Schwartz)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.advocacy
Subject: Re: I am giving up on the Amiga
Distribution: world
X-NewsSoftware: GRn 1.16e (7/4/92) by Mike Schwartz & Michael B. Smith
Date: 26 Jul 92 13:27:36 PST
Organization: Amiga makes it possible

In article <1992Jul25.211014.24153@ctr.columbia.edu> jerry@connection.prospect.com (Jerry Shekhel) writes:
> mykes@amiga0.SF-Bay.ORG (Mike Schwartz) writes:
> >
> >The real problem with OS/2 is that it is an orphan product.  It is made
> >by IBM, and nobody buys from IBM (well, hardly anyone).  It's main claim
> >to fame is its ability to run DOS and Windows apps.  However, the August
> >1992 Byte reviewed of OS/2.  The title of the article: "OS/2 2.0: A Mixed
> >Blessing".  Specific gripes listed including poor performance on a PS/2
> >model 70 25-MHz 386 with 6MB of RAM using HPFS, less than intuitive WPS
> >interface, elimination of a more popular shell from 1.3, and lack of
> >compatibility with significant Windows 3.1 apps.  The article also
> >claims that the WPS is eminently crashable.
> >
>
> Although the WPS still has stability problems, I cannot see how they could
> call it less than intuitive.  In fact, it's the most intuitive user interface
> I've ever seen!
>

Not intuitive to me, though.  I launched the same app 8 times by accident
on a 50MHz 486 machine the other day.  Double-click on icon - wait -
must have failed so try again...  Finally all 8 incarnations came up...

> The problem with all the critics is that they're still trying to use OS/2
> as a platform for running DOS and Windows applications.  This is
> understandable, as 32-bit OS/2 applications haven't arrived in great numbers
> yet.  Still, these guys should learn to see the potential in OS/2 -- the
> potential to blow away any DOS or DOS+Windows system.
>

Jerry - the Amiga OS has had the SAME potential you describe (i.e. 32 bit apps)
for almost 8 years and look where that has gotten us Amiga users.  Not very
far, in other words.  If people "learned" potential, the Amiga would have
sold 50 Million machines by now - especially the A3000.

> As for the WPS, it makes extensive use of the right mouse button, and
> it works nothing like Windows, so they call it "hard to use".  Now *that*
> really annoys me.
>

Using the right mouse button has never bothered an Amiga user :)

> >
> >Mike Schwartz  (ames!zorch!amiga0!mykes or mykes@amiga0.sf-bay.org)
> >
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Sega Genesis programmer of: Dick Tracy and Marble Madness.
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