On Oct 20, 1993 at 22:07, Paul Markham of 3:711/934.1 wrote:

 PM> INSTALLING IBM C SET++
 PM> ======================

It seemed so much easier installing the beta after having made an install
disk set from the PDK CD...

 PM> INSTALLING A BORLAND OR MICROSOFT PRODUCT
 PM> =========================================

A bloody dashboard, and/or steering wheel or somesuch rubbish fills the
screen, and creates havoc when trying to install in the background and run
something else in the foreground.

    INSTALLING A ZORTECH PRODUCT
    ============================

Symantec pretends its really installing Microsoft Windows and fills the PM
screen with a dithered blue number with a bit of a slip and some icons. 
End result?  Absolutely no getting away from the install while it's
happening.

    INSTALLING A WORDPERFECT, FAXWORKS, GAMMATECH, &c. PRODUCT
    ==========================================================

Install does its thang and lets you do yours.  Like life *should* be, and
just like IBM says is a "Good Thing" in its developer
documentation.

 PM> [NOTE: once more the editor is terminated...]

Happened to me with WordPerfect 5.2 for OS/2 (numerous times) when trying
to run the spell checker, thesaurus or grammar checker;  something about
not having any more swap space (!!).

Ain't computing fun?  ;-)


    - dave
    david{at}harpo.nepean.uws.edu.au

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