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From: pavlov@canisius.UUCP (Greg Pavlov)
Newsgroups: comp.arch
Subject: Re: OS/2 is dead?
Message-ID: <3077@canisius.UUCP>
Date: 14 Dec 90 23:46:15 GMT
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Organization: Canisius College, Buffalo N.Y. 14208
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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.  ....

  I am willing to bet that the vast majority of these 25 million+ users do
  not have the foggiest idea of what OS/2 is or any notion of how to "move"
  to it  (not an insult: it's not their job to worry/know about these things).

  It's the computer people supporting these machines who will have to a) con-
  sider the "move" and b) implement it.  When these people sit down to serious-
  ly contemplate what has to be done to accomplish this for what it will yield,
  the decision will be made to leave good ol' DOS (and Windows) on most of the 
  machines for a long time to come.   And when OS/2 is, in fact, installed, the
  primary reason in the majority of those cases will be system management,
  e.g., factors that affect the efficiency of the people managing these systems

  greg pavlov, fstrf, amherst, ny
  pavlov@stewart.fstrf.org