Xref: utzoo comp.windows.ms:11842 comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc:8950 Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!uwm.edu!lll-winken!sun-barr!newstop!sun!amdcad!brahms!phil From: phil@brahms.amd.com (Phil Ngai) 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: <1991Apr23.192637.27712@amd.com> Date: 23 Apr 91 19:26:37 GMT References: <1991Apr22.135439.17136@rti.rti.org> <1991Apr23.002101.14336@amd.com> <1991Apr23.025053.956@msuinfo.cl.msu.edu> Sender: usenet@amd.com (NNTP Posting) Organization: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. Lines: 15 draper@buster.cps.msu.edu (Patrick J Draper) writes: >Isn't the purpose of the SPARCstation to provide a compatible hardware >platfore which would enable the use of shrink-wrap software? Where is all this great, cheap, software going to come from? Sun? ha ha. Interactive, who wants about $2,000 just for an operating system? SCO, who wants even more? Some places it won't come from: Microsoft, DEC, HP, MIPS, Apple, etc. -- It doesn't have to be perfect to be useful.