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From: nwickham@triton.unm.edu (Neal C. Wickham)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.advocacy
Subject: Re: NeXT/Amiga Flamage: Get a life.
Message-ID: <1991Apr06.190425.12173@ariel.unm.edu>
Date: 6 Apr 91 19:04:25 GMT
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In article <1991Apr6.180951.1614@neon.Stanford.EDU> torrie@cs.stanford.edu (Evan Torrie) writes:
>>IBM just dropped OS/2 because of a lack on interest.
>
>  Ah, not quite.  IBM seems to be spending $40 million to promote it
>this year.  More likely, you mean Microsoft has "dropped" OS/2 [well
>at least gone with promoting Windows instead of OS/2].
>  But this will change with ARCA and OS/2 NT.  
>
>
>-- 
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>Evan Torrie.  Stanford University, Class of 199?       torrie@cs.stanford.edu   
>"I didn't get where I am today without knowing a good deal when I see one,
> Reggie."  "Yes, C.J."

Well, you may be more informed than I.  But I first of all heard from a freind
in the business that Windows was going to effectively kill OS/2 and then I read
in some publication called Info (not .info) or something like that that OS/2
was being dropped and no longer supported due to the success Windows.  I don't
recall if it were specifically IBM or Microsoft who was dropping the support.

My point was, however, that new and better doesn't spell success or change.
Even IBM and/or Microsoft can't get people to buy what is good for them.


                                   NCW 


P.S. Evan, may the bluebird of happiness build its nest in your tree of manhood.