[ Quoting Steve Steffler to Scott Little ]
 SS> Excalibur BBS Software - Non standard, incompatible with everything
 SS> else, virtually no third party support, doesn't let a user call without
 SS> downloading a huge terminal program first to even log on.
Excalibur sux anyway. It wouldn't matter if it was under OS2 or Windows, the
user would still need a GUI based terminal package.
 SS> Microsoft Works - Bloated, poorly organized, not well integrated, and
 SS> a strange interface.  Not compatible with many graphic formats.
 SS> Microsoft Word - A very large, slower, buggier, and security risking
 SS> (via macro viruses) version of WordPerfect 5.1/6.0 for DOS.
What versions of these are you describing? And have you actually acknowledged
all the features? Some things you generally don't see, but they are still
there.
 SL> Wasn't it the OS2 crowd saying that all new OS2 apps run on old
 SL> versions of OS2? Doesn't that sound something like OS2 not changing
 SL> terribly much?
 SS> Nooooooo, it sounds like backwards compatibility in the applications,
 SS> a mark of decent programming.
No, it sounds like OS2 hasn't changed a bit in the last release or more.
Backward compatibility means new OS runs old software. I'm talking about
old OS runs new software.
Regards,
 - Scott
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