Message-ID:	<005201c09b37$c3c75120$11fea8c0@dell>
From:	"Ben A L Jemmett" <ben DOT jemmett AT ukonline DOT co DOT uk>
To:	<opendos AT delorie DOT com>
References:	<Pine DOT LNX DOT 4 DOT 21 DOT 0102192015020 DOT 8439-100000 AT smarty DOT smart DOT net>
Subject:	Re: DOS v. Windooozz
Date:	Tue, 20 Feb 2001 12:22:16 -0000
Organization:	Jemmett Glover Software Development
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> However, there is sort of a vicious
> circle effect: a lot of developers don't write for OS's like BeOS
> because the user base [is so small ...]

The same problem effectively killed OS/2 unfortunately.  Nice OS, big
company behind it, no app support => no users => no new apps.

Regards,
Ben A L Jemmett.
(http://web.ukonline.co.uk/ben.jemmett/, http://www.deltasoft.com/)

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