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From: glang@Autodesk.COM (Gary Lang)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next
Subject: Re: Death of OS/2? (was Re: Microsoft OS/2?)
Keywords: OS/2, Presentation Manager, Microsoft
Message-ID: <2773@autodesk.COM>
Date: 15 Feb 91 09:38:05 GMT
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Organization: Autodesk, Inc., Sausalito, CA
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Of course, Gordon forgets that at the OS/2 "Masterbuilders" rollout
(seems so long ago, 4 years and still no takers) he gave a lunch talk
in which he said "Um, this stuff is actually not all that revolutionary.
Unix has had it for years". He couldn't see Jon Shirley rolling his eyes
behind him at the podium.

But Gordon, with all due respect, if MS wanted to give Unix a standard
GUI, it could do so. And if your new OS is POSIX-compliant as the noise
from Redmond is starting to get out, you're basically building YAU so
why not fess up to it? What was so fabulous about an operating system
based on the architecture of the 286 that didn't even have a new file 
system? Were the licensing fees really that bad?

If Windows32 ends up running on OS/3 or whatever you call it and 
OS/3 is POSIX compliant, I'd say you solved the problem. The divergent
GUI nonsense in the Unix world has nothing to do with Unix per se.

BTW, I think MS developers are incredibly talented, and just want it
clear that the person who said that is just talking nonsense.  

-g
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Gary T. Lang  (415)332-2344 x2702  
Autodesk, Inc.
Sausalito, CA.
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