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   On Sat, 29 Dec 2012 12:07:45 -0500, Bob Campbell wrote:   
      
   1> Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.advocacy   
      
   1> There is really no reason to use OS/2 as your only computer these days.   
   1>    Unless you like banging your head against the wall.   
      
   Classic unsubstantiated and erroneous claim.   
      
   1> However, it remains an interesting thing to play with.   
      
   Classic erroneous presupposition.   
      
   1> The challenge of getting it to do anything useful is fun - assuming   
   1> you like challenges.   
      
   Classic unsubstantiated and erroneous claim.   
      
   1> For example, I just got the networking going, and got Thunderbird   
   1> running here.   
      
   Good for you.   
      
   1> I used to use OS/2 all the time, but that was 20 years ago. It got me   
   1> thru the Windows 3.0/3.1 era.   
      
   It can get you thru[sic] the Windows 8 era, too.   
      
   1> OS/2 2.1 and 3.0 ran Win 3.1 and DOS apps better than Win 3.1 and   
   1> DOS.   
      
   Classic pontification.   
      
   1> When Win 95 and NT 4 became available, I abandoned OS/2 since it was   
   1> clear IBM was also.   When Will Zachmann came to the same conclusion a   
   1> year or so later, everyone knew it was all over for OS/2.   
      
   Classic unsubstantiated and erroneous claim.   
      
   1> These days OS/2 is little more than a historical curiosity.   
      
   Classic unsubstantiated and erroneous claim.   
      
   1> Along with others like the many Unix OSes (Coherent, Xenix etc. among   
   1> many others I had), the Apple Lisa, the Apple ///, TRS-80s and the   
   1> dozen or so OSes they had, CPM etc. etc.   
      
   What does that have to do with OS/2, Campbell?   
      
   1> All gone, some nearly forgotten.   
      
   Unlike OS/2.   
      
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