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From: c186cn@volga.Berkeley.EDU (Andrew Corlett)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
Subject: Re: microsoft
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Date: 16 Nov 90 21:44:20 GMT
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In article <39821@ut-emx.uucp> fly@ccwf.cc.utexas.edu (neil aggarwal) writes:
>
> Is it true what i hear about Microsoft dropping OS/2 development?
>Does this mean that OS/2 version 2.0 will never materialize?
>Someone please give me the news straight, i can take it... then again, 
>  maybe i cant. 
>What would lead Microsoft to do such a thing? were there copyright porbs?
>  I think it is sad that the worlds best operating system is being 
>droppped.....
>  Anyone know anything about this, i am quite concerned..


	No. IBM and Microsoft have came to an agreement on OS/2.
IBM will market Windows and Microsoft will sell OS/2 with the ability
to sell it's own version (just as you can buy pc dos or ms dos.)

Andrew
Corlett@cory.berkeley.edu