As a long time OS/2 user, I definitely do not want IBM wasting its time downgrading OS/2 to make you happy. Microsoft is losing. Windows NT is selling like fruit cake in January. Chicago is going to be the biggest mongrel kludge on the planet. Big can be a bad thing, particularly when you got big selling an operating system that cannot be moved slowly to a serious system without major pain and changes. OS/2 is coming on just like Windows did when it got started. The third time is the charm; the next release of OS/2 is looking good. But it doesn't just look good, it is good down to its foundations. And it is more compatible with more software than anything on the planet.
Dean Roddey
72170.1614@compuserve.com
I usually resist the temptation to add to the clutter in authors' mailboxes, but I have to say something about your September C
ommentary: Bravo! Bravo! This is what I've thought ever since I became an OS/2 fan a while back (right after I was disappointed with the final release of Windows NT). Why is it that Big Business, up in the Ivory Towers, can never see as clearly as we can down here in the trenches?
Robin P. Dunn, Software Engineer
robind@code3.com
Santa Clara, CA
Flexible C++
Matthew Wilson
My approach to software engineering is far more pragmatic than it
is
theoretical--and no language better exemplifies this than C++.
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