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From: marc@mercury.sybase.com (I am Marc E. Strohwig)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.ms
Subject: Why not PM ?
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Date: 19 May 89 15:51:54 GMT
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Reply-To: marc@mercury.sybase.com (I am Marc E. Strohwig)
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	This is the primary news group for Microsft 'windowing'
systems (MS-Windows & OS/2 PM). Most (if not all) of the traffic
coming across this group is for various incarnations of Windows. There
has been virtually no traffic reguarding OS/2's PM. 

Query: Why? 

Is PM to new ?
Is the environment to costly to develop/deploy under ?
Is the current market too small (MS-DOS vs. OS/2, 8088/86 vs.80286/386) ?
You just haven't thought about it ?
You dislike the OS/2 environment ?
Your awaiting Windows 3.0 (The mini-OS/2 || super-Windows) ?
Your application doesn't require the power of OS/2.

or

Is is that OS/2's PM cannot currently connect to the outside world
over any non-LAN MAN network (TCP/IP, DECnet, SPX/IPX,...)?

	Your feedback on why you have chosen MS-Windows over PM (if
you had a choice) for your application development/deployment would give
us a better understanding as to where these environments are going.
(I'm also just curious)

	Thanx,
		_Marc

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