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From: ts@uwasa.fi (Timo Salmi LASK)
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.misc
Subject: Re: Real Soon Now Rumors
Message-ID: <1990Aug19.064601.21406@uwasa.fi>
Date: 19 Aug 90 06:46:01 GMT
References: <12176@.UUCP>
Organization: University of Vaasa
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In article <12176@.UUCP> ergo@netcom.uucp writes:
>In <12725@hydra.gatech.EDU> gt3070b@prism.gatech.EDU (Jeff Watkins) writes:
>
>>If you have not updated to Dos 4.01 don't bother.  Version 5 is in beta testing
>>even as I type.  There are all sorts of rumors about it.  I even heard that it
>>enters protected mode, had reentrant services, and more.
:
>
>Even if *A*L*L* of it is true, who cares?  By the time 5.0 is
>stabilized, there'll be noise about 6.0....

And here is another way of looking at this.  Why bother updating to
Dos 4.xx since 3.3x version is up and running already :-). 

The serious reason for saying this is that Dos 4 belongs to the
series of the big flops of the 1980's, right along to OS/2 (which
takes the first price).  Windows 3 seems likely to do better, even
if its requirements on the PC are exorbitant.  Saying this does not
necessarily reflect any personal preferences but the discrepancy
between what has been the expected and the realized rate of adoption
of these operating systems.  I wonder when technicians will learn
the ability to listen to the market.

...................................................................
Prof. Timo Salmi        (Moderating at anon. ftp site 128.214.12.3)
School of Business Studies, University of Vaasa, SF-65101, Finland
Internet: ts@chyde.uwasa.fi Funet: gado::salmi Bitnet: salmi@finfun