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From: es1@cunixb.cc.columbia.edu (Ethan Solomita)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.advocacy
Subject: Re: 8-bit death
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Date: 7 May 91 14:54:17 GMT
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In article <1075@stewart.UUCP> jerry@stewart.UUCP (Jerry Shekhel) writes:
>
>All right.  This "half-an-OS" garbage is beginning to irritate me.  Microsoft
>is a business; they dropped it because it wasn't selling.  That doesn't mean
>it wasn't a superior OS.  In this industry, people don't always buy the better
>product, and you should know that, Mr. Experience.
>
	Yes, the problem with OS/2 was that it wasn't selling.
You say it's a superior OS? Superior to what? MS-DOS? Of course
it was! Superior to Unix? NO.
	OS/2 basically gave you nothing beyond what Unix gives
you, and so people simply decided to go the Unix route rather
than a proprietary IBM route.
	What would you do? Unix HAS succeeded. OS/2?

	-- Ethan

"Brain! Brain! What is Brain?"