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Re: irc/2
Actually I've been an OS/2 user since version 1.0 SE. I'm also an IBM business partner,
however you are right, I meant to say Internet Adventurer. Sorry, I don't know what came
over me. (BTW, I also went to Camp Cambridge.)
Lee
> Internet Explorer has chat built-in.
>
> > Are anyother chat programs besides irc/2 available for os2warp
> > ver. 3.? I have another computer with win95 which is using
> > perch, but I do not know if that is available for os2.
>
> There's probably an alternate universe somewhere in which Microsoft
> has ported IE to OS/2. But in this universe, I think it has the same
> probability as "hell freezing over". Or maybe it's something like
> "over Bill's dead body".
>
> I guess you're not an OS/2 user.
>
> I'm not trying to be unpleasant, or to demean you. But for those of
> us who use OS/2, the Microsoft war against OS/2 is, unfortunately, a
> central fact of our computing lives.
>
> What scares me is the idea that Bill will decide that Linux is worthy
> of some similar "attention". I'm not sure what he could do about it
> (Give away all MS software in a spirit of sharing? That'll teach
> those scruffy bastards!), but I don't really want to find out, either.
>
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