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From: cbema!las@cbnews.ATT.COM (cbema!las)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: Microsoft, OS/2, and UNIX
Keywords: troubles, sinking ship
Message-ID: <5295@cbnews.ATT.COM>
Date: 31 Mar 89 18:36:40 GMT
References: <12878@watdragon.waterloo.edu>
Reply-To: cbema!las@cbnews.ATT.COM (Larry A. Shurr)
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Organization: AT&T Bell Laboratories, Columbus, OH (actually an AGS consultant)
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In article <12878@watdragon.waterloo.edu> afscian@violet.waterloo.edu (Anthony Scian) writes:
>Microsoft claims that OS/2 is "priority one, two, and three" for them.
>After reading that recent issues of various PC magazines, I can't
>help but wonder...

I can't help but wonder if OS/2 isn't just too late, having missed its
market window.  286 machines have become established as fast DOS machines.
Even if OS/2 had been available sooner, the cost of memory might have 
still been an obstacle to its acceptance.

regards, Larry
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Signed: Larry A. Shurr (att!cbnews!cbema!las or osu-cis!apr!las)
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(With apologies to the real thing.  The above represents my views only.)