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From: jls@hsv3.UUCP (James Seidman)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.ms,comp.os.os2.misc
Subject: Re: Query:  Which would you recommend?  Windows?  or OS2 w/ PM?
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Date: 25 Sep 90 16:28:36 GMT
References: <4227@rex.cs.tulane.edu> <1990Sep19.171840.9384@portia.Stanford.EDU> <57630@microsoft.UUCP> <1990Sep23.065916.10069@amd.com>
Reply-To: jls@headland.UUCP (James Seidman)
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In article <1990Sep23.065916.10069@amd.com> phil@brahms.amd.com (Phil Ngai) writes:
>In article <57630@microsoft.UUCP> steveha@microsoft.UUCP (Steve Hastings) writes:
>|Lotus, WordPerfect, and some others looked at the
>|long run and said "Forget Windows.  OS/2 is going to blow it away." In the
>|long run, this is still true.

>But Steve, haven't you heard? MS and IBM are close to filing divorce.
>IBM is going to get OS/2. In retaliation, MS has threatened to revoke
>the planned crippling of Windows that would have been required to avoid
>embarassing OS/2. Namely, Windows could get a high performance filesystem
>and real multitasking. At that point, what would be the difference
>between the two as far as the user is concerned?

Actually, this isn't what I've heard recently.  I understand that MS and
IBM have "made up" and come up with a coordinated plan.  That plan is to
push Windows as the standard platform.  Look for IBM to start bundling
Windows with its PS/2's and the like.  You'll probably still see OS/2
on the high-end systems, but IBM has finally realized that they can't
singlehandedly push something completely big and bloated (like OS/2) beyond
something only mildly big and bloated (like Windows) in today's marketplace.

Now, maybe Steve has some inside information that we don't (how about it,
Steve?), but everything I've heard supports Windows dominating over OS/2.
Not to mention what you see by just comparing the sheer numbers of
units sold...
-- 
Jim Seidman (Drax), the accidental engineer.
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