On Feb 16, 1996 at 07:22, Bill Grimsley of 3:640/305.9 wrote:

 BG> OK, understood.  I call those ones "Windows zealots" myself.  :)

Lemmings, zealots .. what's the difference?  :-)

 db>> They are focused on the app, not the environment.
 BG>
 BG> Agreed, and very much so.  Indeed, the vast majority of my MIDI apps are
 BG> Windows-based will ONLY run properly under native Windows.  There are
 BG> apparently none coded for the OS/2 API.  A pity, too.

Certainly not as good as their Windows counterparts, anyway.  But give it
time;  some really interesting stuff is slowly starting to appear on the
'net, and with systems like Linux and OS/2 Warp growing in popularity
despite the onslaught of Microsoft, more high-quality software is likely to
be available for free (or cheap shareware) than the Windows environment is
becoming.

Besides, I need to maintain a small DOS-only partition just for dedicated
gaming (I can run Duke Nukem 3D under OS/2, but who wants to switch back to
a wordprocessor when you're in the middle of saving the planet?!  *grin*).

Which reminds me - has anyone seen the OS/2-only game AVARICE yet?!  I'm
*really* looking forward to the full release of that one (even more so than
Quake under DOS).

All we need now is for someone to take one of those
DOOM/Heretic/Hexen/Duke3D/Quake editors and create some AUST_AVTECH levels
and creatures!  ;-)

 BG> Exactly, although I'm a bit disappointed that whilst USR mention the
 BG> necessity of storing the baud rate to NVRAM with &W, they don't
 BG> adequately explain why this is necessary with their modems.

Nobody/nothing is perfect - sad but true;  we'll always find something that
can and should be improved.

 db>> Smarting?  I'm right and he's wrong - what's the problem?  *shrug*
 BG> The problem is that he refuses to acknowledge that he's wrong.  :)

He's so used to being right (sometimes) that he's deluded himself into
thinking that he's *always* right.  *shrug*

    - dave
    d.begley{at}ieee.org

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