Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!usc!chaph.usc.edu!aludra.usc.edu!ajayshah
From: ajayshah@aludra.usc.edu (Ajay Shah)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: DOS 5.0? or was I dreaming?
Message-ID: <9678@chaph.usc.edu>
Date: 9 May 90 02:46:45 GMT
References: <90126.174503TIM@MTUS5.BITNET>
Sender: news@chaph.usc.edu
Organization: University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA
Lines: 19

In article <90126.174503TIM@MTUS5.BITNET> TIM@MTUS5.BITNET (Timothy R Prodin) writes:
>remember where.  If this is true, how will this affect OS/2 as the supported
>os of the PS/2 line?  This will be the first version that does not have
>IBM as a co-developer (they officially dropped it at the end of the first
>quarter of this year), and how will that affect it?  Will this be a 286/386
>version, abandoning all of those pc's and xt's?

Looks like a lot of partings-of-ways these days, actually.  IBM's
new machine (i believe it's a simple 286 running MSDOS) is the
first sign of IBM faltering on OS/2.  IBM's official line of the
Apple-Microsoft fonts ain't so benign either.  Considering the
prices of the low-end PS/2 as compared with the low-end IBM RISC
workstation, could IBM be trying to dump the PS/2 line
altogether?  I.e., have a lineup composed of a 286-MSDOS machine
at low-end and next stop is a $4k RISC workstation?  
_______________________________________________________________________________
Ajay Shah, (213)747-9991, ajayshah@usc.edu
                              The more things change, the more they stay insane.
_______________________________________________________________________________