Xref: utzoo comp.os.msdos.misc:1952 comp.windows.ms:12362 comp.os.os2.misc:1244 Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!usc!apple!veritas!amdcad!brahms!phil From: phil@brahms.amd.com (Phil Ngai) 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: <1991May7.164109.13128@amd.com> Date: 7 May 91 16:41:09 GMT References: <1991May6.171205.9611@watson.ibm.com> <066gx8m@rpi.edu> Sender: usenet@amd.com (NNTP Posting) Organization: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. Lines: 17 barryf@aix01.aix.rpi.edu (Barry B. Floyd) writes: >installed base of '386s price/performance of OS/2 2.0 may win the day. With >nominal upgrades to hardware (RAM, networked disk space) it may be a >winning combination, given the right applications. Given an amazing >development environment it might be even more popular. All this and more Barry, you seem to have overlooked the fact that OS/2 will run Win binaries. That combined with a High Performance File System and a DOS box which is better than DOS, should be enough to switch many Win users to OS/2 >are attached to a broadband network. Add to this the installed software >base and the related cost of upgrading hardware and buying new software to I don't see that you have to spend lots of money on new hw and sw. -- The enemy of my enemy is my friend.