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From: billc@mirror.UUCP (Bill Callahan)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.ms
Subject: Re: Why not PM ?
Message-ID: <26886@mirror.UUCP>
Date: 22 May 89 14:08:32 GMT
References: <4316@sybase.sybase.com>
Reply-To: billc@prism.TMC.COM (Bill Callahan)
Organization: Mirror Systems, Cambridge Mass.
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In article <4316@sybase.sybase.com> marc@mercury.sybase.com (I am Marc E. Strohwig) writes:
>
>	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? 

Quite simple for me, really:  I'm developing a Windows application.  More to
the point, we're doing it in Windows rather than PM/OS/2 because most of the
PC's out there are DOS machines.  To run our App, all you have to do is have
Windows installed and type 'win app' and it's off and running.

If and when people start switching over in droves to OS/2, then we'll
probably port our application to PM.  But right now, that's not where the
market is, and it's not even clear that the market will be there any time
soon, maybe ever.

						Bill