Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!bonnie.concordia.ca!thunder.mcrcim.mcgill.edu!snorkelwacker.mit.edu!mit-eddie!uw-beaver!fluke!ssc-vax!carroll From: carroll@ssc-vax (Jeff Carroll) Newsgroups: comp.arch Subject: Re: OS/2 is dead? Message-ID: <3569@ssc-bee.ssc-vax.UUCP> Date: 10 Jan 91 20:05:21 GMT References: <4036@dah.sub.org> <5150@exodus.Eng.Sun.COM> Sender: news@ssc-vax.UUCP Reply-To: carroll@ssc-vax.UUCP (Jeff Carroll) Organization: Boeing Aerospace & Electronics Lines: 23 In article <5150@exodus.Eng.Sun.COM> jcb@frisbee.Eng.Sun.COM (Jim Becker) writes: >ed@dah.sub.org (Ed Braaten) writes: > >Windows 3.0 runs along with OS/2, so I don't see how they can compete. > >I also don't see how UnixWorld (Current) and the New York Times >(Sept24th) can show Windows competing against DOS and OS/2 for market >share, but who am I to question journalists.. :-) > I think I saw the UnixWorld article, or something like it. One possible way of understanding this is to remember that lots of DOS people were exposed to pre-3.0 Windows, and thus might not want to have anything to do with Windows, ever again. Then there are the people who have, use, and like such things as Desqview. Jeff Carroll carroll@atc.boeing.com (uunet!?)uw-beaver!ssc-vax!carroll