Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!wuarchive!uwm.edu!psuvax1!hsdndev!spdcc!iecc!johnl From: johnl@iecc.cambridge.ma.us (John R. Levine) Newsgroups: comp.arch Subject: Re: OS/2 is dead? Summary: Yes. Message-ID: <1990Dec13.044942.3859@iecc.cambridge.ma.us> Date: 13 Dec 90 04:49:42 GMT References: <28775@usc> <14887@ogicse.ogi.edu> Organization: I.E.C.C. Lines: 18 In article <14887@ogicse.ogi.edu> borasky@ogicse.ogi.edu (M. Edward Borasky) writes: > > 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. Most likely true, but I see no reason to assume that the survivor of this convergent evolution will be OS/2. With the possible exception of Lotus Notes, I know of no interesting application that requires OS/2, though I know of a lot that need Windows. Who knows, the survivor may actually be a bunch of DOS, Windows, OS/2 and Unix emulators all simultaneously running on top of a mach kernel with a hardware-assisted display that talks X12 or perhaps Display Postscript. -- John R. Levine, IECC, POB 349, Cambridge MA 02238, +1 617 864 9650 johnl@iecc.cambridge.ma.us, {ima|spdcc|world}!iecc!johnl "Typically supercomputers use a single microprocessor." -Boston Globe