From: letoured_at_together.net
Date: Fri Feb 15 2002 - 02:06:48 EST
In <20020215033547.92356.qmail_at_web9708.mail.yahoo.com>, on 02/14/02
at 07:35 PM, "Steve C." <stevec50_at_yahoo.com> said:
>> Anyway no statement has meaning unless it is
>> calibrated. The
>> reference point is MS: they won't even take your
>> calls. At
>> least IBM cared enough to abuse you :) (In fact
>> your memory
>> may be embroidering this tale for you.
>Don't you mean Embellished? Ha ha!
>Actually, NO! Never got any sort of help from IBM! The
>OS/2 Users Group was much more helpful!
>Not that I want to compliment Microsoft or anything
>but I have called Microsoft with a question and got help!
I've watched this thread and a few thoughts came back; The Egghead poster
probably went to a store that was not well managed, because I remember (around
1993 OS/2 v2.0 time) that the Egghead I visited clearly stated that they would
not provide help. So I ordered directly from IBM.
And I had problems, but there was an 800 number and IBM did help when I
called. The problems were more mine for not reading the manual -- more then
OS2 itself. Of course I was running an AMI motherboard system and the other
poster had a Dell -- Which was probably a good deal of the problem.
I say that because years later I went to install OS2 on a Dell that they
actually supported OS2 on -- and I couldn't get it to finish the install. It
was for a friend who wanted OS2, not windows after playing with OS2 on my
laptop. Eventually I got smart, took a hard drive from a machine where it was
installed, put it in the Dell, booted, picked F1 on the boot to restore the
initial install setting and loaded the correct drivers for the Dell. Then I
use Xcopy to copy the boot partition to the machines hard drive, set it up as
"C," rebooted and never had another problem with it. [Try that with anything
from M$].
My other experience that I remember most from the Ver 2 error, was to call IBM
about why it took so long for OS2 to boot. The guy must have spent an hour
with me walking me through the things OS2 was doing, and letting me see the
difference between it and Windows.
-- My biggest concern was the amount of time it took to boot -- I was certain
I could never be productive on it waiting for endless minutes while it
rebooted -- because I was also certain from the DOS/Windoze experience that I
would have to reboot 15 times a day. -- It took me years to really get that
idea out of my head.
... and I still constantly save data, knowing its unnecessary and stupid --
since I have seen things like, (get this) once the battery in my TP600 was
going dead, the warning lights was blinking -- and I kept typing -- the screen
went blank and I finished the great thought I had in the dark, while the
maching was shutting itself down -- When I replaced the battery and restarted
the machine every thing I typed in those last few seconds was there and saved.
Do that with anything named Winxxx or Linux for that matter.
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