From: "Robert Comer" 

There were cumulative (and still are).

- Bob Comer


"Rich"  wrote in message news:42feaebf{at}w3.nls.net...
   I didn't realize IBM's fix packs were not cumulative like Windows. Maybe
my memory is failing but I thought I had applied them that way.

Rich

  "Geo"  wrote in message
news:42fc765d$1{at}w3.nls.net...
  You have missed my point of the difference between 15 fixpacks that all
have to be installed one after the other or one service pack that's a
cumulative patch and doesn't require previous service packs to be
installed.

  Or did you miss my point? Are you saying the difference was even bigger?

  Geo.
    "Rich"  wrote in message news:42fc3550$1{at}w3.nls.net...
       You are confusion hot fixes and service packs.  OS/2 had both just
like Windows.

    Rich

      "Geo"  wrote in message
news:42fc0a0f$1{at}w3.nls.net...

      I mean remember the old days when OS/2 had what 15
      fixpacks and everyone way saying how nice and easy it was for NT
because all
      you had to do was apply the latest service pack and you were up to
date?
      What do you think people would have said if OS/2 had 51 fixpacks?
Course
      that's back when MS actually was listening to customers instead of
selling
      us out to every corp who want's to exploit us and IBM was ignoring us
in
      favor of their "we know best, let them eat squatty fonts" attitude.

      Funny how things change, isn't it?

      Geo.

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