Xref: utzoo comp.windows.ms:11866 comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc:8960 Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!usc!apple!veritas!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: <1991Apr24.015441.11392@amd.com> Date: 24 Apr 91 01:54:41 GMT References: <1435@caslon.cs.arizona.edu> <1991Apr23.002101.14336@amd.com> <1991Apr23.153331.2211@rti.rti.org> Sender: usenet@amd.com (NNTP Posting) Organization: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. Lines: 22 bcw@rti.rti.org (Bruce Wright) writes: >I'm not so sure Microsoft is pushing OS/2 all that hard. But One thing I should point out is that I am talking about OS/2 as the same thing as the next generation of Windows. Not the lame OS/2 1.1 or even OS/2 2.0, but the "NT" OS that MS talks about. >The problem with OS/2 >is that that niche may become permanently occupied by enhanced >versions of Windows, which we know are going to appear over That won't hurt MS NT, it will run Win binaries too. >the next couple of years. From what I've heard of Windows 4.0, >(due out in around a year or 18 months or so), it's not clear >that there will be much room left for OS/2 between the Windows >and Xwindows territory. That's the point, that Win and OS/2 will become the same thing. -- It doesn't have to be perfect to be useful.