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On Tue, 15 Apr 97 12:13:04 -0800, laniear@ibm.net wrote: >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 wouldn't want IE on my machine, let alone that it formatted the hard drive on someone else's. >> >> 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. Fortunantly, there is software that helps us deal with it, such as Bill Gates dart games, and being able to shoot rounds of bullets into the Micro$oft logo. >> >> What scares me is the idea that Bill will decide that Linux is worthy >> of some similar "attention". I'm not sure what he could do about it >> (Give away all MS software in a spirit of sharing? That'll teach >> those scruffy bastards!), but I don't really want to find out, either. >> That would be interesting though, the Shareware version of Window$ 95, with 50% more bugs than ever! > > > >||----------------------------------------------------------|| >|| Lee Laniear || >|| laniear@ibm.net OR laniear@netcom.com || >|| || >||----------------------------------------------------------|| > > The one thing I find interesting is how Windows 95 costs about the same price as OS/2 Warp 4, and Warp 4 has so many more features. I wonder when Gate$ will actually include free, usable "lite" editions of software programs in his next release of Window$. After all, it probably only costs them 10½, the disks or CDs 50½, and distribution maybe 25½, considering mass quantities, so I'm sure Gate$ could sacrifice a few dimes. Paul Khoury pkhoury@earthlink.net