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From: kaleb@thyme.jpl.nasa.gov (Kaleb Keithley)
Newsgroups: comp.os.ms.dos.misc,comp.windows.ms
Subject: Re: OS/2 2.0 is here! READ THIS, you'll be impressed
Message-ID: <1991Apr26.211100.7830@thyme.jpl.nasa.gov>
Date: 26 Apr 91 21:11:00 GMT
References: <4837@gumby.Altos.COM>
Organization: Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA
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In article <4837@gumby.Altos.COM> jerry@altos.COM (Jerry Gardner) writes:
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>The best way for Micro$oft/IBM to guarantee acceptance of OS/2 2.0 is
>to avoid calling it OS/2.  Why not just call it Windows 4.0?

The absolute best way to guarantee acceptance of any version of OS/2 is
to bring the price in line with competitive OS's.  If OS/2, MSC, and SDK
were $400, total, it'd sell like proverbial hotcakes.

Compare ESIX S5R3, which includes a development system (compiler, assembler,
libraries, include files), TCP/IP networking, the X Window System, and
too much more to mention here, with OS/2.  I don't know current prices,
much less student discounts, so, these are from memory, and they're old.
OS/2, $300.  PM SDK, $1500.  MSC, $350.  Or, DOS, $75-100.  Windows, $125.
MSC, still $350.  Windows SDK, $325.  ESIX, at $825, is the clear winner.

Now, I'm not trying to compare UNIX to OS/2, or PM/Windows to X Window
System.  But if it walks like a duck and quacks like a duck, is it a duck?.  
From ten feet back, they all kinda look the same.  And with UNIX, you can 
have more than one user.  Try that on OS/2, or DOS.

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Kaleb Keithley                        kaleb@thyme.jpl.nasa.gov

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