Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!samsung!uunet!drivax!frotz From: frotz@dri.com (Frotz) Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc Subject: Re: Bill Gates, in memo, warns of attack and defeat by rivals Message-ID: Date: 26 Jun 91 18:52:48 GMT References: <23720@shlump.lkg.dec.com> <1991Jun21.155437.12513@sarah.albany.edu> Sender: frotz@dri.com Reply-To: frotz@dri.com Organization: Digital Research, Monterey CA/USA or none (see also My_Desk) Lines: 39 <-:...Now where was that gasoline...:-> brk102@leah.albany.edu (Brian King) writes: ]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 They had little choice... The marketplace demanded it. It would have been very embarrassing to have Digital Research assume control over the direction of DOS (as they assumed control over the direction of CPM-86, I mean DOS 1.1;-) ]Microsoft should be embarrassed to releasing another version of DOS, ]and giving up its development on OS/2, Here, you have it backwards. They were embarrassed to have NOT released another version of DOS (in essence, giving up on it) and concentrating on OS/2. It wasn't until we started making noises about our DR-DOS 5 release in the UK that we "suddenly" heard about the "new" release of DOS 5... As for OS/2, I think that regardless of its technical merits (or not) it will be relegated to a niche market, as has our Flexos operating system. There will be no other operating system for the 90s other than DOS (at least for the first half!). The installed user base is getting much more sophisticated, than 5 years ago, but there is still a large amount of inertia to overcome. I don't believe that OS/2 can do it (yet). -- John "Frotz" Fa'atuai frotz@dri.com (email@domain) Digital Research, Inc. uunet!drivax!frotz (bang!email) c/o MIS Dept. 408/647-6570 or 408/646-6287 (vmail) 80 Garden Court, CompRm 408/649-3896 (phone) Monterey, CA 93940 408/646-6248 (fax) #include // These are MY thoughts, not those of DRI.