Re: No. 1 paid utility in Mac App Store steals browser history, sends it to Chinese server

Subject	Re: No. 1 paid utility in Mac App Store steals browser history, sends it to Chinese server
Newsgroups	comp.os.linux.advocacy, alt.comp.os.windows-10, comp.sys.mac.system, comp.os.os2.ecomstation
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From	Dave Yeo <dave.r.yeo@gmail.com>
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Date	2018-11-08 14:58 -0800

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SilverSlimer wrote:
> I never had the chance to use OS/2 for any significant length of time
> since my hardware - when OS/2 was still competing - wasn't good enough
> to run it and because the system itself seemed fairly counterintuitive
> to me. Add the fact that software was scarce and there truly was little
> reason to use it, IMO. My experience with IBM itself, at the time, was
> also fairly negative so I'm not convinced that the PC platform would
> have been better off had it won the race over Windows either.

I used it with substandard hardware (386 with 4MBs) by stripping it 
down. No WPS was the big thing. Originally I used it as a DOS 
replacement and it worked very well. Wanted to download stuff from a BBS 
while doing other stuff, OS/2 just worked. Wanted to run 2+ Win3.1 
programs without one crashing and taking the other down, OS/2 allowed 
that, while downloading from a BBS.
Generally OS/2 was a better DOS and Windows. Used a better file system 
with better caching, making it faster much of the time. Want to run and 
multi-task multiple Win (and/or DOS) programs, OS/2 did it well.
Eventually I got more ram and a faster processor (33Mhz 486 DLC that 
plugged into my 386 board) and started using the WPS and native programs 
and never looked back.
Typing this on OS/2 running on real hardware.
Dave

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Re: No. 1 paid utility in Mac App Store steals browser history, sends   it to Chinese server "John Varela" <newlamps@verizon.net> - 2018-11-07 18:58 +0000
  Re: No. 1 paid utility in Mac App Store steals browser history, sends it to Chinese server SilverSlimer <silver@slim.er> - 2018-11-07 18:04 -0500
    Re: No. 1 paid utility in Mac App Store steals browser history, sends it to Chinese server Leonard Blaisdell <leoblaisdell@sbcglobal.net> - 2018-11-07 17:13 -0800
    Re: No. 1 paid utility in Mac App Store steals browser history, sends it to Chinese server Dave Yeo <dave.r.yeo@gmail.com> - 2018-11-08 14:58 -0800
      Re: No. 1 paid utility in Mac App Store steals browser history, sends it to Chinese server SilverSlimer <silver@slim.er> - 2018-11-08 21:19 -0500
      Re: No. 1 paid utility in Mac App Store steals browser history, sends it to Chinese server SilverSlimer <silver@slim.er> - 2018-11-08 21:25 -0500

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