On (12 Dec 96) Stephen Haffly wrote to Bill Wolff...
Hi Stephen...
 CM> I am in a quandry, at this time. I need a copy of OS/2 warp v3 
 CM> on CD rom. I have the red spine box, with the 3.5" floppies, 
 CM> and I'd like to install OS/2 as the OS for my WC4.20m10 system, 
 CM> but really can't (don't) want to spare the 4-6 hours, or more, 
 CM> that it would take to install from floppy disks.
 BW> I have worked with, installed, and ran OS/2 far many times. And if 
 BW> you are worried about only waiting 4-6 hours to change over to OS/2, 
 BW> then you have a big surprise coming. I've used OS/2 for 17 months 
 BW> and the time you waste with OS/2 seems to be never ending. If you're 
 BW> not reconfiguring it over and over again, then you are either 
 BW> tracking down drivers, software, etc.
 SH> Please stop extrapolating your experience to everyone. I have 
 SH> used OS/2 Warp for two years and have certainly not had the 
 SH> experience you have had. It has installed out of the box for 
 SH> me, certainly in less than the 4 to 6 hours you mention, and 
 SH> has run stable unless I did something to affect that such as 
 SH> running less than well behaved beta applications.
Oh please! I can find message after message of others saying the 
same dang thing that I am in the OS/2 echo.
 SH> If Chris wants to try it out, he certainly can.
Sure he can. But it's also fair to warn him what he is up against.
 SH> Just because you decided on DOS with pictures called Windows 95 
 SH> doesn't mean everyone has to follow your choice.
If you are going to insult people, I suggest you go find somewhere 
else to play!
 SH> FWIW, Geoworks Ensemble 2.01 runs fine with OS/2, both Warp 3.0 
 SH> and Warp 4.0. I can't say about NDO, because I have decided to 
 SH> wait until the next version with communications is released.
GEOS Ensemble 2.01 and NDO also runs fine under W95.
 SH> 
You wouldn't know FUD if it hit you on the head! You clearly haven't 
had the expertise in running both OS/2 and Windows that I have had. 
So I suggest you should go share your opinions with those that are 
far more ignorant that you are.
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