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From: sysmgr@KING.ENG.UMD.EDU (Doug Mohney)
Newsgroups: comp.arch
Subject: Re: OS/2 is dead?
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Date: 14 Dec 90 20:38:02 GMT
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In article <Fke2i1t3@cs.psu.edu>, melling@cs.psu.edu (Michael D Mellinger) writes:
> 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.

I don't think so....I think you'll be lucky to see 1/5 those users move to
OS/2, because A) It's very complex in its current form and B) Relatively
resource-intensive. 

>Then again, maybe Sun and NeXT can put Unix on the business desktop and
>save us all a lot of suffering, waiting, and money.

Brrrrrrr..."business users" have enough trouble suffering through MS-DOS
and LAN networks. 
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