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From: fr@icdi10.UUCP (Fred Rump from home)
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Subject: Re: PC-WEEK Article / OS/2 obituary?
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Date: 4 Jul 89 14:13:37 GMT
References: <238@imspw6.UUCP> <6221@microsoft.UUCP>
Reply-To: fr@icdi10.UUCP (Fred Rump from home)
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In article <6221@microsoft.UUCP> ericbr@microsoft.UUCP (Eric Brown) writes:
->In article <238@imspw6.UUCP-> bob@imspw6.UUCP (Bob Burch) writes:
->->What I see really killing OS/2 dead is the following consideration:  that in
->->the next few years, wherever you go, you'll see mid-sized computers all
->->running UNIX, database engines (such as the 100 tps Sequent) running UNIX,
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->No, what I think you'll see is IBM mainframes talking to IBM minis
->talking to IBM desktops, and some poor slob is going to have to tie all
->of those things together, and he's going to think to himself: "Now, do I
->want those desktops running OS/2 and *IBM* having to deal with 3 totally
->different software worlds forever, or would it be simpler to just run
->UNIX on the desktops and have to connect them together myself?"  The IBM
->mainframes are *NOT* going away, and IBM *is* delivering the goods to
->make everything talk together (granted, talking SNA/3270 simulation, but
->talking).

Obviously this scenario can only function in a world where mainframes reign.
Is it then that OS/2 has been relegated to Fortune 1000 firms? Why is it then 
that IBM 'reluctantly' has endorsed (Unix) AIX all across its boxes? 

I believe for everything but the 400 there will be a similar operating
environment.  I suppose that is because the 400 will also be used out there in
small computer land where little independent mini users can't be let off the
hook just yet.  That is the System 36 world is it not?  RPG and all.

It doesn't take a lot of smarts to wish to go with one operating system all
across the line if we really want to pursue the line of one vendor thinking.
And we don't expect a mainframe OS/2 just yet, right? Or maybe on a variety of 
present and future RISC machines that will most likely serve in the capacity 
alluded to here.
Fred Rump


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