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From: ajayshah@aludra.usc.edu (Ajay Shah)
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Subject: Re: Query: Which would you recommend? Windows? or OS2 w/ PM?
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Date: 27 Sep 90 07:16:45 GMT
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(On a long thread connected with OS/2)

In case you haven't heard the news yet, OS/2 is dead.  Microsoft
is "putting all it's wood behind one arrow" (to borrow a phrase 
from Scott McNeally) and putting everything into Windows 3.1, 4, 5...  
Expect two windows releases for every Intel microprocessor!

IBM is going to extend OS/2 on intel hardware (Why!!!!????).  
Microsoft plans to eventually redo OS/2 in C in a architecture 
independent way, so as to keep it's foot in the OS door.

Considering it took 3 years for 'em to get a barely acceptable
OS/2 v2 running, I'm not holding my breath.  I think 2 years more
is too much time given competition from NeXT (especially NeXTStep) 
and SPARC-MIPS Unix boxes.

IBM has started offering NeXTSTEP as an option on PS/2..
interesting world, ain't it??

>Did you hear the joke about the scientist whose wife had twins?
>    - He baptized one and kept the other as a control.
	Good one!

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Ajay Shah, (213)734-3930, ajayshah@usc.edu
                              The more things change, the more they stay insane.
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