On  in a message to John Dubchak, Jonathan de Boyne
Pollard wrote:

JD> Borland's opinion is that if you are developing for OS/2, YOU
JD> MUST be developing for DOS and Windows.

JdBP> That's a little unfair on Borland.  In my experience it
JdBP> isn't a deliberate policy on their part.  It's just that if
JdBP> you register *one* of their products, they slap you on a
JdBP> whole load of their mailing lists.  It was years before they
JdBP> stopped sending me upgrade notices for Paradox.

JdBP> It also depends from whether the part-time typist doing the
JdBP> registration cards that day is knowledgeable enough to know
JdBP> that Borland's C++ compiler for OS/2 is not the same as its
JdBP> C++ compiler for DOS, and doesn't just organise everything
JdBP> into one big pile labelled "C++ compiler".

Watcom and IBM do the same thing.  I've been getting mailings about
Watcom's visual REXX product ever since I registered Watcom C/C++ 10.0.
I haven't bought _any_ programming products from IBM, but I get DB2/2
flyers from IBM, who apparently got my name when I registered OS/2 2.0.


Ed Blackman

... Origamicartaphobia: the fear of having to refold a road map.
--- Blue Wave/Max v2.12 OS/2 [NR]