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From: brk102@leah.albany.edu (Brian King)
Subject: Re: Bill Gates, in memo, warns of attack and defeat by rivals
Message-ID: <1991Jun21.155437.12513@sarah.albany.edu>
Summary: HAR HAR!
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Date: Fri, 21 Jun 91 15:54:37 GMT
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I have NEVER stated MHO's before in a post before, but I can't hold
back on this one!

In article <23720@shlump.lkg.dec.com> you write:
>
> Microsoft - Gates, in memo, warns of attack and defeat by rivals
>
>	{The Wall Street Journal, 19-Jun-91, p. B8}
> ...
> confirmed by Microsoft. ... Though Mr. Gates publicly insists he still has
> plans for OS/2, an alternative piece of the software that IBM and Microsoft
            ^^^^
              yeah, right. It's called "Windows for OS/2 -- turns presentation
manager into a completely unstable environment. Also comes with a free program
that randomly prints windows on your screen telling you to reboot you system!
You'll think you're running under DOS!!!"

> formally are jointly developing and Mr. Gates once heralded as the standard of
> the future, he indicates he has relegated OS/2 to oblivion. "Our strategy for
> the '90s is Windows - one evolving architecture, a couple of implementations.
> Everything we do should focus on making Windows more successful," Mr. Gates
> wrote, according to the San Jose Mercury News.

HAHA! Har HEE HEE! Gag, choke, (*faint*).  What a joke!  Microsoft has
essentially held back the PC world at large.  Come ON!  Get your
priorities straight, MS! In the days where 386 PC's are becoming the
standard on desktops, Microsoft has some serious BALLS (steel, that
is) to release ANOTHER version of DOS, not to mention planning the
FUTURE around Windows!!!! We are supposed to be writing software
(operating systems specifically) to take advantage of our resources
that we have at hand.  Ok, so DOS 5.0 came out. IT allows us to free
up our base 640K of memory. Think about that for just a minute! I
don't know how many posts I have read over the past 6 months where
users have complained about having all this memory on their machines,
but not being able to take advantage of it.  Can we all say "protected
mode virtual memory?"  And I am not talking about Window's so called
"protected mode!"  Any program than misbehaves by poking in a place
where it shouldn't be poking, should just be terminated. IT should not
cause your system to hang, and it should not give you a message
telling you "Unrecoverable Application Error! Woah! Reboot me now!"
Of course, I guess I should not blame this on Windows. It is the
operating system which should me handling memory management. DOS?
Memory management? Yeah, right.  Microsoft should be embarrased to
releasing another version of DOS, and giving up its development on
OS/2, which has had these features for quite a while now, along with
UNIX. I won't even discuss the multitasking kludges that run under
DOS.  All I'll say is an OS should inherently provide that for the
user. Period.

> That position angers IBM, which
> paid Microsoft huge amounts of money over the years to lead OS/2 development.
> Frustrated with Microsoft's stance, IBM began directly pushing OS/2. The split

I stand fully behind IBM's move to push OS/2. (Like they really
care... :-) IMO (what else is new), the biggest reason that OS/2 has
not taken off yet is because of not ONLY its lack of applications, but
also the cost of migrating from DOS to OS/2. With OS/2 2.0, this will
no longer be a concern. With the ability to run DOS apps, Windows
apps, and OS/2 apps (of course), there will be no more need for DOS!
Yeah!!! I'll have a few more frisbee's more my dog to chew up!


Ok. Maybe I have been a little spoiled by UNIX, and I have been teased
and tormented by the possibilities of OS/2 2.0, but those of you that
haven't seen these OS's in action, you don't know what your missing.
THESE are operating systems of the 90's!

>
>James J. Reisert                Internet:  reisert@mast.enet.dec.com
>Digital Equipment Corp.         UUCP:      ...decwrl!mast.enet!reisert
>146 Main Street			Voice:     508-493-5747
>Maynard, MA  01754		FAX:       508-493-0395

Thanks James. I really needed to read that! :-)
 

-Brian King  (brk102@leah.albany.edu)