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From: chuck@trantor.harris-atd.com (Chuck Musciano)
Newsgroups: comp.arch
Subject: Re: OS/2 is dead?
Keywords: OS/2
Message-ID: <5074@trantor.harris-atd.com>
Date: 12 Dec 90 19:52:25 GMT
References: <28775@usc> <14887@ogicse.ogi.edu>
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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.

     I think it is not too far off the mark to say that OS/2 is certainly
weakening, and has a poor prognosis.  Recent figures from IBM revised the
sales estimates for OS/2 for 1992 from 6.5 million copies to 900,000 copies.
The predictions for OS/2's success have been extraordinarily optimistic,
and so far, dead wrong.

     Do you ever expect 80286 and 8088 based machines to go away?  We will
be running MS-DOS well into the next century, I think.

     My prediction?  OS/2 will wither and die, while Windows becomes the
predominant PC operating environment.  Unix, of course, will rule any
non-proprietary platform.

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