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From: bender@oobleck.Eng.Sun.COM (Michael Bender)
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Subject: Re: Microsoft and Friends
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Date: 13 Nov 90 00:44:50 GMT
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In article <90313.225702RFM@psuvm.psu.edu> RFM@psuvm.psu.edu writes:
-->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.

Hey, I've always wondered if there really were people that think OS/2 is the
future, and that DOS is pretty good also, but I've never met one.  This
posting somehow forgot the :->'s, right?  I mean, OS/2 - you can't be
serious?!

mike
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