[33] in OS/2_Discussion
Dvorak, the loose cannon
pshuang@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (pshuang@ATHENA.MIT.EDU)
Wed May 20 14:45:10 1992
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.advocacy,comp.os.os2.misc
From: ldoming@wiliki.eng.hawaii.edu (Lawrence Domingo)
Subject: Re: Dvorak on Computers
Nntp-Posting-Host: wiliki.eng.hawaii.edu
Organization: University of Engineering, College of Engineering
Date: Sun, 17 May 1992 20:31:37 GMT
I was listening to the same radio show that Dvorak co-hosts and I was
impressed by the same thing you were: Dvorak is pushing OS/2 2.0 almost
to a religious fervor. To quote Dvorak: "I threw DOS away."
This is a surprise considering that not more than two months ago Dvorak
had a column in either PC Magazine or PC Comuting going on about how OS/2
was doomed to failure, partly because he said IBM is unable to market a
computer product successfully (I can't argue with that).
But this same man was raving about OS/2 and telling everybody to get it
and put it on their machine. He also mentioned that OS/2 2.0 has already
sold about 2 million copies (compared to, he said, about 200,000 copies of
OS/2 1.x).
He even went so far as to say that if any single man can make OS/2 2.0
successful by spreading the word, it was him. That statement alone made
it sound like Dvorak is on a personal crusade to make OS/2 2.0 the
sole successor to MS-DOS. This is good. Dvorak is a highly popular
columnist, who does columns for the full suite of Ziff-Davis mags:
PC Magazine, PC Computing, Computer Shopper, and MacUser. He is probably
the most highly regarded of all computer columnists, and is listened to
mostly by computer types who couldn't appreciate the technical superiority
of OS/2 2.0 (and who wouldn't care, for that matter) but are instead the
types who just want to run stuff on their computer whether it be Windows
or whatever. That's the type of computer people that will be hardest to
convert to OS/2 2.0, and Dvorak can sway them.
Dvorak also states, while pushing OS/2 2.0, that you need a good sized
system to run OS/2 2.0. He said "sell your 16MHz 386s and 286's before
you try OS/2" (not an exact quote). Glad to see that's he's practicing
safe computing. :)
