Xref: utzoo comp.windows.ms:11799 comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc:8913 Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!swrinde!elroy.jpl.nasa.gov!lll-winken!iggy.GW.Vitalink.COM!widener!netnews.upenn.edu!msuinfo!buster.cps.msu.edu!draper From: draper@buster.cps.msu.edu (Patrick J Draper) Newsgroups: comp.windows.ms,comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc Subject: Re: OS/2 2.0 is here! READ THIS, you'll be impressed Message-ID: <1991Apr23.025053.956@msuinfo.cl.msu.edu> Date: 23 Apr 91 02:50:53 GMT References: <1991Apr22.135439.17136@rti.rti.org> <1991Apr23.002101.14336@amd.com> Sender: news@msuinfo.cl.msu.edu Reply-To: draper@buster.cps.msu.edu (Patrick J Draper) Organization: Dept. of Computer Science, Michigan State University Lines: 24 Originator: draper@buster.cps.msu.edu In article <1991Apr23.002101.14336@amd.com> phil@brahms.amd.com (Phil Ngai) writes: >bcw@rti.rti.org (Bruce Wright) writes: >>the marketplace). The high end is already owned by things like NeXT, >>and Unix with Xwindows and Motif. OS/2 V2.0 won't run on anything > >Get real. Who do you think will have shrink wrapped software first, >OS/2, which MS is pushing, or Unix, which (somebody?) is pushing. > >Of course, real programmers use troff, but real users don't. > >-- > It doesn't have to be perfect to be useful. Isn't the purpose of the SPARCstation to provide a compatible hardware platfore which would enable the use of shrink-wrap software? Vive la SPARC if this is true. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Patrick Draper "College is supposed to prepare you for the future, cps.msu.edu but all my future's behind me." draper@cps.msu.edu -- My GrandPa, age 85, Fall 1990 graduate of Western Michigan University ------------------------------------------------------------------------