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From: melling@cs.psu.edu (Michael D Mellinger)
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Subject: Re: OS/2 is dead?
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Date: 13 Dec 90 02:27:50 GMT
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In article <14887@ogicse.ogi.edu> borasky@ogicse.ogi.edu (M. Edward Borasky) writes:


   In article <28775@usc> ajayshah@alhena.usc.edu (Ajay Shah) writes:
   >Knowing OS/2 is safely dead and buried where all terrible OSes
   >belong
   OS/2 is NOT dead or even dying.  It is the natural evolutionary path
   of MSDOS/WINDOWS.  MSDOS/WINDOWS and OS/2 will eventually converge.
   Once the members of the 80x86 family BELOW the 80386 die off, MSDOS
   will be a point in history like RSX-11 and OS/360.

This gentleman is probably correct.  There are at least 25 million DOS
users that will eventually move to OS/2.  This will probably take
several years, but most DOS users will migrate to OS/2.  We have to
suffer through DOS 5.0(early next year) and Windows 4.0 first.  Then
again, maybe Sun and NeXT can put Unix on the business desktop and
save us all a lot of suffering, waiting, and money.

-Mike