Re: WIN95 & Thinkpads (VERY Long!)

[dewar@GNAT.CS.NYU.EDU (Robert Dewar)]

I find this discussion of preloading a bit peculiar. OS/2 has been quite
successful but not as a general purpose system for low end notebooks. In
particular, OS/2 really is not reasonable on a 4 meg machine. IBM does
preload OS/2 on their high end thinkpads (my 755CX with 8 megs came with
OS/2 preloaded in a dual boot setup that was quite reasonably configured).

I am a great advocate of OS/2 and use it on all my thinkpads, but if a friend
was buying a low end thinkpad for simple word processing with only 4 megs of
memory, I would load Windows for them ...

I think the important thing for us as thinkpad users is to try to ensure
that all operating systems and devices are nicely supported on the thinkpad,
and with the exception still of Nextstep (am I right on this), I think we are
in pretty good shape from this point of view.

To me, the real problem is when I can't use something. For instnace I really
like the Sony DIskman, but they have ZERO plans to develop a Warp driver,
now *that's* really irritating. At least an OS/2 version of Frame is finally
appearing ...