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From: RFM@psuvm.psu.edu
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc
Subject: Re: Microsoft And Friends
Message-ID: <90313.225702RFM@psuvm.psu.edu>
Date: 10 Nov 90 03:57:02 GMT
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I've wondered about Microsoft sometimes myself, but let's face it: if Intel
keeps driving the Mainstream PC market, Microsoft is in the catbird's seat.
Would I drop DOS? No way, not for UNIX, at least. Prejudiced, Maybe. Butt
more, DOS is where all my software apps are. Hence I'm vitally interested in
what Microsoft is doing.
   As for OS/2, it's time is coming (albeit slowly) It's the 32-bit
operating system (if the future is 32 bits). DOS Extenders are patches,
more in the genre of temporary fixes than permanent solutions. As far as I'm
concerned, Windows was a dog, is a dog, adn will continue to woof. The next
REAL step forward is to 32-bit systems, and Windows can't touch that. OS/2
is in our futures.
Bob M., PSU-Harrisburg.