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Date:      Thu, 19 Jun 1997 10:04:21 +0800 (HKT)
From:      Greg Lehey <grog@FreeBSD.ORG>
To:        jamie@itribe.net (Jamie Bowden)
Cc:        lsmarso@panix.com, francisco@natserv.com, freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: OS/2 users going to FreeBSD?  :-)
Message-ID:  <199706190204.KAA00354@papillon.lemis.com>
In-Reply-To: <199706182022.QAA12265@gatekeeper.itribe.net> from Jamie Bowden at "Jun 18, 97 04:21:52 pm"

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Jamie Bowden writes:
> On Wed, 18 Jun 1997, Larry S. Marso wrote:
>
>> I'm one of them, too (after a brief tour of Linux-land).  OS/2 has a
>> superior object oriented GUI, the server for which is multithreaded; X
>> servers are not! (ready to receive technical FLAME if I'm mistaken).
>> But I actually prefer off-the-shelf UNIX apps.
>
> I am one of those as well.  OS/2's GUI is awesomely built.  Too bad IBM
> hired their own marketing staff to sell it.

How times have changed.  Used to be a time that IBM's products were
so-so, and their salesmen the world's best.

Greg



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