Xref: utzoo comp.windows.ms:12016 comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc:9097 Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!sdd.hp.com!spool.mu.edu!uwm.edu!linac!att!news.cs.indiana.edu!cica!bronze!silver!ntaib From: ntaib@silver.ucs.indiana.edu (Nur Iskandar Taib) 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: <1991Apr27.043939.15110@bronze.ucs.indiana.edu> Date: 27 Apr 91 04:39:39 GMT References: <1991Apr24.015441.11392@amd.com> <1991Apr24.150039.15048@rti.rti.org> Sender: news@bronze.ucs.indiana.edu (USENET News System) Organization: Indiana University, Bloomington Lines: 29 >> That's the point, that Win and OS/2 will become the same thing. >It's not quite so clear from I've seen that Windows and OS/2 >will become the same thing. There is talk of incorporating >some things from OS/2 into Windows (HPFS, pre-emptive multi- >tasking, etc), but I've not seen anything from any source >that I'd consider very reliable that they would become the >_exact_ _same_ _thing_. Well, Windows is supposed to be the new front end (or "environment") to OS/2, as it is for DOS. So it'll run Windows for DOS binaries under OS/2. I even heard a Microsoft sales rep say that they were dropping Presentation Manager in favor of Windows for OS/2.. though what the difference is I can't say (the old Windows 2.2 was actually called "Pre- sentation Manager" on the installation disks). How about this rumor that OS/2 will be ported over to the 68000 series processors? That even- tually we'd be running Windows binaries on Macs? -- ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Iskandar Taib | The only thing worse than Peach ala Internet: NTAIB@AQUA.UCS.INDIANA.EDU | Frog is Frog ala Peach Bitnet: NTAIB@IUBACS ! -------------------------------------------------------------------------------