Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!mips!ptimtc!nntp-server.caltech.edu!woody From: woody@nntp-server.caltech.edu (William Edward Woody) Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc Subject: OS for the 90's (was: Re: Bill Gates, in memo,...) Message-ID: <1991Jun27.031235.8818@nntp-server.caltech.edu> Date: 27 Jun 91 03:12:35 GMT References: <1991Jun26.215452.27235@ncsu.edu> <1991Jun26.234046.27886@msuinfo.cl.msu.edu> Organization: California Institute of Technology, Pasadena Lines: 24 >>>There will be no other operating system for the 90s other >>>than DOS (at least for the first half!). >> >>I beg to differ, John. Unix is going to be a major player in the >>Operating System game of the 90's. I'm actually surprised at how long > >Very true. However, Borland is working with IBM to develop an OS/2 >32-bit compiler for version 2.0 Actually, who cares what the operating system for the 90's is, so long as the API are similar enough so that I can take my application of the 90's and get it to work on them. Of course 32-bit flat addressing would certainly help; my biggest bugaboo is working with Windows 3.0 or DOS; I don't like _near pointers verses _far pointers; it makes live very painful (especially with C++)... -- Bill -- William Edward Woody | Disclamer: USNAIL P.O.Box 50986; Pasadena, CA 91115 | EMAIL woody@tybalt.caltech.edu | The useful stuff in this message ICBM 34 08' 44''N x 118 08' 41''W | was only line noise.