Xref: utzoo comp.os.msdos.misc:1964 comp.windows.ms:12384 comp.os.os2.misc:1255 Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!wuarchive!udel!haven.umd.edu!cs.wvu.wvnet.edu!dbl From: dbl@cs.wvu.wvnet.edu (David Lawson) Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.misc,comp.windows.ms,comp.os.os2.misc Subject: Re: OS/2 2.0 is here! vs Windows 3.0 vs NeXT/MACH Message-ID: <1508@h.cs.wvu.wvnet.edu> Date: 8 May 91 03:19:08 GMT References: <1991May6.171205.9611@watson.ibm.com> <-47gvh+@rpi.edu> Followup-To: comp.os.msdos.misc Organization: WVU Statistics and Computer Science Lines: 32 In article <-47gvh+@rpi.edu>, barryf@aix01.aix.rpi.edu (Barry B. Floyd) writes: [much of article deleted] > OS/2 is technically more advanced than DOS, no one seems to deny this fact. > Win 3.0 on top of DOS is satisfactory for millions of people, no one > seems to deny this fact. Many developers are porting Win 3.0 app's to > PM on OS/2, no one seems to deny this fact. To date I am not aware > of any "killer app's" uniquely suited to OS/2, that aren't available on > Win 3.0 (e.g. Improv on the NeXT taking advantage of OO and Mach is Well, I've got a "Killer OS/2 App" for you. Let's say, a compiler that doesn't run out of memory on an 8 meg machine because the OS !WILL! let it get to the memory. I realize this may seem like a developer only problem but it DOES affect the end user. Applications that cannot be shoe-horn compiled on a machine running windows and a DOS-Box with no more than 625K (and that comes with luck, DOS 5 and lots of devicehigh= in the config.sys) will not be written. It is a serious problem to be limited by DOS in the development cycle of products. Even if the eventual resting place of a product is DOS+Windows, we need OS/2 as a development and testing platform. Windows is just too unstable (IMHO of course). > barry > -- > +--------------------------------------------------------------------+ > | Barry B. Floyd \\\ barry_floyd@mts.rpi.edu | > | Manager Information Systems - HR \\\ usere9w9@rpitsmts | > +-Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute--------------------troy, ny 12180-+ Dave Lawson dbl@h.cs.wvu.wvnet.edu