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Re: WIN95 & Thinkpads (VERY Long!)




> If IBM had offered 1/4 of the amount of information for installing WARP on
> a thinkpad as they provide for installing win95 *beta* on at thinkpad, it
> would have saved me hours or days of tweaking.  From what I've read, WARP
> is technically superior in every way but one (single input buffer), but if
> the parent company cares so little about it, it is destined to always be a
> fringe operating system with a loyal cult following.  Win95 has won the war
> without a single shot...In fact, they've won with only the promise that
> someday they intend to get some ammunition!

I couldn't agree more.

It's also interesting that IBM would release a BIOS upgrade to correct
deficiencies with power management functions under Win95 when I can't
even get them to acknowledge that the same problems exist under Warp.
I suspect that August 24th is the beginning of the end for OS/2...


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Karl E. Yeanoplos
Denver, CO
kyeanopl@den.mmc.com / key@csn.net