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Subject: Re: Any experiences with windowing packages with MSC 4.0?
Message-ID: <1760@sphinx.uchicago.edu>
Date: Wed, 20-May-87 03:51:36 EDT
Article-I.D.: sphinx.1760
Posted: Wed May 20 03:51:36 1987
Date-Received: Thu, 21-May-87 07:03:53 EDT
References: <482@ucsbcsl.UUCP> <441@csm9a.UUCP> <1098@ubvax.UUCP> <4008@teddy.UUCP> <598@bsu-cs.UUCP> <1169@ubvax.UUCP> <90@bernina.UUCP>
Reply-To: pre1@sphinx.UUCP (Grant A. Prellwitz)
Organization: U Chicago Computation Center
Lines: 45
Keywords: WINDOWS
Summary: OS/2 isn't Windows!

In article <90@bernina.UUCP> zu@bernina.UUCP (Urs Zurbuchen) writes:
>In article <1169@ubvax.UUCP> skip@ubvax.UUCP (Stayton D Addison Jr) writes:
>>I guess I am thinking primarily of commercial products for a commercial
>>market.  The story may be different for others.
>
>[deleted text]
>Ok, software houses could stick with Windows, waiting for the next two years
>for OS/2 released WITH the windowing package. With a lot of luck, they will
>have a really successfull programm when OS/2 is out. But in the meantime,
>they won't earn much.
>		...urs
>UUCP: ...seismo!mcvax!cernvax!ethz!zu
>BITNET: K261819 @ CHZHRZU1A

If I understand it correctly, just because a package has been developed
under the Windows interface doesn't even mean that it will work under OS/2!
This is presumably Microsoft's rational in charging $3000 for
an OS/2 development kit.  

First Microsoft has people buy the things to develop under Windows
and then they say that what they have is barely acceptable and that they
had better look at spending a LOT more $$$ to get the OS/2
development kit and a new machine from IBM.  Not the sort of
thing that standards are made of.  On top of that, only
large corporations and people interested in networking are going
to switch to OS/2 right away.  For the vast majority of the
true "personal" computer user, there is no real incentive to
leave the old PC or AT and move to OS/2.  Who needs such
a memory hog on a personal computer that will never be tied
to another computer except by a modem and that has no real
need to run multiple tasks at once?  There will certainly
be a market for the new OS with businesses and developers,
but it won't make anywhere near the imact that we saw with DOS
2.x/3.x in terms of installed base, certainly not for many years.
Stay away from windows.

The above is entirely personal opinion for which no one is to be
held responsible. (Including the author - it is actually just
a glitch in the line I never said that).

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