Linda Proulx,

13-Nov-99 12:52:02, Linda Proulx wrote to Murray Lesser
 LP> -=> Murray Lesser wrote to Linda Proulx <=-
          Subject: Re: Get Going

 LP> Which is why I now have this P unit.

Details please?

 LP> Also considering future hardware I may have haved to have win95

99% of the time hardware is not a good reason to use M$, especially if you
read the OS2HW echo and make careful selections before buying new HW.  Often
the difference in price between the very cheapest M$ only HW that is usually
slow and unreliable, is not enough savings in $ compared to buying average or
better HW that will run under OS/2 and M$.  If your time and data are worth
anything at all, then paying a little extra for reliable HW for OS/2 will be
worth it.  The extra time and frustration recovering from problems using the
cheapest M$ HW (even when using it only under M$) is enormous.  Only those
who have never been exposed to the reliability of OS/2 can "forgive & forget"
those problems M$ and the cheap HW designed only for M$ cause.

OTOH some new software (due to M$ cut throat contacts) is designed to only
run on M$.  But that is mostly games and updated versions of some other
software like DeLorme's map stuff etc.  Fortunately TaxCut (as of last year's
version) will still run under Win-OS/2.  99% of the time there is native OS/2
alternative software to perform whatever task M$ does.

Do yourself a BIG favor:  don't buy nor even install a free gift of WinXX,
until long after you have been using OS/2 on a regular basis.  Give yourself
at least 6 months to a year of regular (every day all day) use of OS/2 so
that you will learn how to do things the right way FIRST.  That will build up
your immunity to becoming addicted to the M$ virus.  Then if you absolutely
must have some M$ only software, at least you will understand that you can
Boot Manager to WinXX to run that and then go back to OS/2 to get some work
done.  And you will understand to only use M$ on extremely rare occasions.

If you have any thoughts of doing a comparison of M$ before you get a very
good handle on OS/2, then you will become so confused that it will cause you
to need many years to learn as much about OS/2, as what you could learn in a
few months without M$.  In other words it is much easier to learn OS/2 if you
don't have to UNlearn M$ first.

     Thanks and Good Luck,        Andy Roberts
                                  andy@shentel.net
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