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From: drz@csri.toronto.edu (Jerry Zarycky)
Subject: OS/2 or Windows: which to develop for?
Message-ID: <1991Feb14.120802.3737@jarvis.csri.toronto.edu>
Organization: CSRI, University of Toronto
Date: 14 Feb 91 17:08:03 GMT
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The subject line sums up our predicament.
Now that the fallout from the Wall Street Journal article has spread,
the "management" types choose to ignore the seminar that Microsoft had
the next day.  Management is demanding that our software be ported from
OS/2 to Windows because they think that our customers will be demanding
Windows programs.  Argh!  Now to port from a pre-emptive multitasking
system to one that isn't will pose us a few problems.  And then to wait
for the 32-bit version of Windows to come out while 32-bit OS/2 2.0
is supposedly around the corner doesn't make a lot of sense to me.

So, my question is: what is (are) the time frame(s) of the release of
Win32 versus the release of OS/2 2.0?

I don't expect anyone to really know, or that someone who knows would 
actually release this kind of information, but it makes me feel better
to ask!

Is anyone else struggling with this kind of question, and if so, what
are you considering to do?

Thanks for any replies,

Jerry Zarycky

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