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echo: os2prog
to: Keith Thomson
from: Pierre Vandevenne
date: 1996-04-28 20:28:46
subject: Developing for OS/2...

Hello,

ET>> Exactly.  I have no idea why people hate OS/2 so much.  I was reading
ET>> in an OS/2 book that Microsoft and OS/2 were writting OS/2, when
ET>> Microsoft got out to push Windows.

KT> siphon off $$..  and IBM did it as a tax writeoff...

The initial IBM developer's kit for OS/2 was offered at 5000 U$.
Visual C was priced at 100 U$. It was better.

Not to mention the fact that, from Windows, you could print.

Pierre
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