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From: tneff@bfmny0.BFM.COM (Tom Neff)
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
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Date: 11 May 91 04:49:09 GMT
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In article <_p9g#sl@rpi.edu> barryf@aix01.aix.rpi.edu (Barry B. Floyd) writes:
>The perspective I offered takes these and many other points into 
>consideration (through endless committee meetings, reviews of technical
>reports, reviews of budgets, etc.). In a very pragmatic sense I must
>also consider installed base at our site. 

Fine.  Then don't buy it.  Who gives a **** about whether OS/2 will
displace this or that on somebody's installed base?  Christ, I hate 
empty generalizations and pointless one-upmanship OS blather.  This
is what PC Magazine has done to the world: created a thousand Jim
Seymours and William Zachmanns trading buzzwords.

The bottom line is, OS/2 2.0 appears to have a lot of neat new features,
including ones a lot of us have been asking for for years.  Specifically
it will have things that are exciting to systems types and developers,
LIKE US... if there are some machines where it won't go, FINE, we
understand that, can we move on?

If the pricing is acceptable, OS/2 may soon be the platform of choice on
any new machine you buy with a 386 or better, which is going to be just
about ALL new machines very soon.  If it does what it claims, I'm going
to install it immediately.  I will let the professional magazine
bullshit artists go on with the important work of wondering (at essay
length, weekly) how the "market" is going to "respond."

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