Path: utzoo!censor!geac!torsqnt!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!usc!csun!kithrup!sef From: sef@kithrup.COM (Sean Eric Fagan) Newsgroups: comp.arch Subject: Re: OS/2 is dead? Message-ID: <1990Dec13.043641.763@kithrup.COM> Date: 13 Dec 90 04:36:41 GMT References: <28775@usc> <14887@ogicse.ogi.edu> Organization: Kithrup Enterprises, Ltd. Lines: 18 In article melling@cs.psu.edu (Michael D Mellinger) writes: >There are at least 25 million DOS >users that will eventually move to OS/2. Uhm, not necessarily. Remember that unix is a contender in that market, as well, at least for the '386 (where you can, *right now*, run multiple DOS binaries at the same time). For the '286, it's uncertain: OS/2 takes up too much, resource-wise (processor, memory, disk), but it lets you run DOS apps, whereas the various '286 unices don't. Windows, on the other hand, will quite possibly steal the show, since it's turning out to be more popular than most people gave it credit for... -- Sean Eric Fagan | "I made the universe, but please don't blame me for it; sef@kithrup.COM | I had a bellyache at the time." -----------------+ -- The Turtle (Stephen King, _It_) Any opinions expressed are my own, and generally unpopular with others.