Xref: utzoo comp.os.msdos.misc:1904 comp.windows.ms:12254 comp.os.os2.misc:1197 Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.misc,comp.windows.ms,comp.os.os2.misc Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!barryf From: barryf@aix01.aix.rpi.edu (Barry B. Floyd) Subject: Re: OS/2 2.0 is here! vs Windows 3.0 vs NeXT/MACH Message-ID: Nntp-Posting-Host: aix01srv.aix.rpi.edu References: <19910502.141008@the-village> <1991May3.115757.508@watserv1.waterloo.edu> <1991May3.171742.9966@serval.net.wsu.edu> Date: 3 May 91 20:16:12 GMT Lines: 57 wbonner@yoda.eecs.wsu.edu (Wim Bonner) writes: >In article <1991May3.115757.508@watserv1.waterloo.edu> tom@mims-iris.waterloo.edu (Tom Haapanen) writes: >>run on a 386 or better, you can bet that the number of OS/2 users will be >>between 10% and 20% of the Windows users. If I was starting development >One thing to think about here, not really to say one way or another, but >definitely think about, is that people who run OS/2 will be "using" os/2. How >many people Using windows are just using it as a task switcher, or glorified >DOS Shell, to continiue using DOS? >Wim. >-- >| wbonner@yoda.eecs.wsu.edu | The Loft BBS >| 27313853@wsuvm1.csc.wsu.edu | (509)335-4339 >| 72561.3135@CompuServe.com | USR HST Dual Standard HST/V.32 During the first year of Window's life (1.x) we used it mainly to launch PageMaker. Our office had a batch file set up for each Window application, which launched Windows and the application then returned to the root directory. Shortly after Excel was released and several other packages were upgraded, more often than not Windows was all anyone saw (no DOS app's except a word processor and Kermit in DOS windows). Shortly after Windows 3.0 was released and more upgrades were made, the few remaining DOS app's were all but phased out. We now have an office logo for a Windows desktop. Using WinQVT for communications eliminated Kermit (except for file transfers - see previous "suggestions" regarding a 'resend packet' dialogue box button). I would suggest that this is typical of other offices I am familiar with. Generally discounting the value of Win 3.0, nowadays, sounds like sour grapes to me. File Manager and Program Manager alone (while they could be better) are a vast improvement of over the DOS prompt (for the unitiated). File Move is otherwise not available. Print Manager used with a PostScript printer is great (showing percent complete, enabling "resume print", etc.). I don't doubt OS/2 will improve on these and other features. But I am willing to wait for OS/3 and stick with Win 3.x for now. If you really want to be impressed, get a NeXTstation with a MACH kernal and object oriented everything. I suspect with advances like these on the (near) horizon (for $5000, including hardware, software and connectivety) even OS/3 will look lame (too little too late). end 'o ramblin barry -- +--------------------------------------------------------------------+ | Barry B. Floyd \\\ barry_floyd@mts.rpi.edu | | Manager Information Systems - HR \\\ usere9w9@rpitsmts | +-Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute--------------------troy, ny 12180-+