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From: jsd@spotted.rice.edu (Shawn Joel Dube)
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Subject: Re: OS/2 is dead?
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Date: 14 Dec 90 17:29:01 GMT
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In article <5074@trantor.harris-atd.com>, chuck@trantor.harris-atd.com (Chuck Musciano) writes:

|>      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.

Well, lets look at it this way, my Atari 800 is 4 years older than the first
IBM PC.  So, 2000 (the next century) - 4 = 1996.  So, by that argument, those 
few people left who know what an 800 looks like will still be using it in 1996.

(Probably yes, but not to do CAD, desktop pub, etc.
 Of course it makes a great electronic fish bowl)

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