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From: cfreas@csserv1.ic.sunysb.edu (Terry Freas)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
Subject: Re: OS/2 Ideas
Message-ID: <1990Oct31.180551.2555@sbcs.sunysb.edu>
Date: 31 Oct 90 18:05:51 GMT
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In article <58639@microsoft.UUCP> gordonl@microsoft.UUCP (Gordon LETWIN) writes:
>In article <1990Oct22.135507.8837@sbcs.sunysb.edu>, cfreas@csserv1.ic.sunysb.edu (Terry Freas) writes:
>> Well, MS has said that Dos 5.0 is the last, but who knows.  

>You may have misheard this - I doubt that Microsoft has said this, since it's
>not true.  There will be significant releases beyond DOS 5 involving major
>new technology.  I apologise for speaking so vaguely, but the changes will
>make DOS fit better into the Microsoft Windows/Network/OS2 strategy, yet will
>be very useful to "ordinary" DOS users, as well.

I culled from three sources (only one was a weekly) about 18 months ago, when
both companies were all gung ho for OS/2, that indeed 5.0 was it.  Now this.
Major new technology was what OS/2 was for.  A modern modular base upon which
major new technology could be easily added.  Let's see now..that's 2..4..
yup, 2 decades before OS/2 becomes viable in the eyes of users...
 
>	gordon letwin
>	microsoft


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