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From: cfreas@csws12.ic.sunysb.edu (Terry Freas)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
Subject: Re: Is OS/2 dead?
Message-ID: <1991Jan31.231237.22301@sbcs.sunysb.edu>
Date: 31 Jan 91 23:12:37 GMT
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In article <1991Jan30.065454.11451@unixg.ubc.ca> ballard@cheddar.ucs.ubc.ca (Alan Ballard) writes:
>In article <4993@lure.latrobe.edu.au> CCMK@lure.latrobe.edu.au (Mark Kosten - Computer Centre, La Trobe Uni.) writes:
>>eric@snark.thyrsus.com (Eric S. Raymond) writes:
>>
>>Does anyone, particularly from Microsoft and IBM, have any comments, or is
>>is this a confusion of the original report from last year?
>>
>
>The following is the word from Microsoft about this, as issued on Compuserve.
>I haven't yet heard much about the press briefing mentioned... other than 
>some comments that it repeated statement from last fall.
>
>[press release on Compuserve (MS Forum) deleted]

>[...] it to run Windows applications."Microsoft will outline plans for OS/2
>and Windows at a press seminar held at Microsoft on Tuesday.

will and held in the same sentence?  Did this occur already or not?
Either way, can someone post a summary?  I'm very interested in
Gatesian philosophy at this point...

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Jeremy Wohl / wohl@max.physics.sunysb.edu / cfreas@csserv1.ic.sunysb.edu