Re: Re: [VirtualNET open?]...

> > I said if you release a Windows and a DOS version, you've covered all bases
> > as both will run quite happily under OS/2, Unix, and for that matter even o
> > a Mac these days.
>   I'll give you that much.  I'm currently running VBBS-DOS under OS/2, and I
> wouldn't settle for anything else.  VBBS/2 just isn't good enough to be worth
> it, and a definite lack of support utilities is a major problem.  I'm
> basically just using OS/2 because it's a better DOS than DOS. =)
>   The only advantage to an OS/2 native version would be for those poor fools
> who registered VBBS/2, believing that it would actually get some support from
> Roland. <g>

I recall, many years ago, when Roland told me of his plans to release an OS/2
version, that I told him he should do a Windows version first, because far
more people use Windows than OS/2. I and the other utility developers were
almost all uninterested in starting work on OS/2 versions.

When he wouldn't change his mind, I then offered to develop a Windows version
in parallel to his development of an OS/2 version, so he could release Windows
and OS/2 versions at the same time, but he rejected that offer too.

Now, we see the consequences. An OS/2 version that can't compete with the DOS
version because none of the utilities that make the complete VBBS "package" so
great are available in OS/2, and still no Windows version.

Neil J Marshall.

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