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From: madd@world.std.com (jim frost)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: OS/2 machines
Keywords: OS/2
Message-ID: <1989Oct27.155854.14251@world.std.com>
Date: 27 Oct 89 15:58:54 GMT
References: <44825@ccicpg.UUCP> <1989Oct26.154845.5482@world.std.com> <1989Oct26.215045.21846@rpi.edu>
Reply-To: madd@world.UUCP (jim frost)
Organization: Software Tool & Die
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In article <1989Oct26.215045.21846@rpi.edu> ander@pawl.rpi.edu (Michael R. Primm) writes:
|I believe that Santa Cruz Operation is a spin-off of Microsoft [...]
|I don't believe they bought any more than they
|already owned....(could be wrong, though..)

SCO was originally a marketing firm, if I remember right.  Microsoft
wasn't having much luck with their UNIX and they handed it off.  I
don't know how much of SCO Microsoft used to own, but I do recall
reading in a trade rag that Microsoft had purchased something like an
additional 14% in the company, and that Gates had stated that the
action in no way meant that they were deviating from their OS/2
commitment.  I looked for the article but was unable to find it; it
was probably in UNIX World or Byte sometime during the summer months.

About OS/2 2.0:  if it comes out soon and it is reliable, it may be
just what the doctor ordered for OS/2.  Unfortunately those
applications which take advantage of the 32-bit flat address space
won't work under previous versions.  Oh well, we all knew that the
80286 protected mode architecture was rather brain-damaged anyway;
what they ought to do is make MS-DOS use the protected-mode address
space and give up on it for OS/2, whose functionality really requires
a bit more in terms of hardware.

Happy hacking,

jim frost
software tool & die     "The World" Public Access Unix for the '90s
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