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From: davidsen@crdos1.crd.ge.COM (Wm E Davidsen Jr)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: 640K limit
Message-ID: <2021@crdos1.crd.ge.COM>
Date: 16 Jan 90 15:03:46 GMT
References: <4668.25aed7f2@uwovax.uwo.ca> <1468@blackbird.afit.af.mil> <28808@amdcad.AMD.COM>
Reply-To: davidsen@crdos1.crd.ge.com (bill davidsen)
Organization: GE Corp R&D Center, Schenectady NY
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In article <28808@amdcad.AMD.COM> phil@pepsi.AMD.COM (Phil Ngai) writes:

| The problem is all the lazy software houses who haven't bothered to move
| to OS/2 and take advantage of the 16 meg protected mode even though the
| 286 can handle it just fine.

  Wait a minute. Why would any company trying to make a profit go to
OS/2? There are so few users that they would be lucky to cover the cost
of a new version of the compiler, much less cover their labor,
packaging, stocking, and labor costs. And lucky to get enough ongoing
income to cover the maintenence.

  This is not a case of lazy, just "no market." Someone told me that
they sold more copies of their educational program for CP/M than OS/2!
That's not a market. If this lady wasn't motivated by a desire to make
social changes she would not have bothered.
-- 
bill davidsen	(davidsen@crdos1.crd.GE.COM -or- uunet!crdgw1!crdos1!davidsen)
            "Stupidity, like virtue, is its own reward" -me