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   Reply-To: Matthew Moulton's Killfile.   
      
   On 05 Jan 2013; tholenbot glugged down some extra strong DXM   
   cough syrup and vomited all over Usenet. I am so pissed that   
   tholenbot selfishly hogged the whole bottle without sharing   
   some with me:    
      
   > 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.   
      
   Classic unsubstantiated and erroneous follow-up. What does    
   alt.usenet.kooks have to do with alt.test, tholenbot?   
      
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