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From: psu@mtuni.ATT.COM (Paul Siu)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Stability of Commodore/Amiga
Keywords: Unix, Amiga, OS/2, DOS
Message-ID: <2852@mtuni.ATT.COM>
Date: 5 Mar 90 22:30:54 GMT
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In article <3881@nmtsun.nmt.edu> dksnsr@nmtsun.nmt.edu (Dr. Mosh) writes:
>
>Point in case is that as micro-computers and desktops become more powerful,
>a better operating system would be needed... OS/2 is much too system
>specific to really become popular...  Unix easily portable and with some mods
>can be installed on just about any system with the capabilities to do so...
>Another thing is, OS/2 is not a fairly programmer friendly environment...
>MS-DOS will inevitably fall away because of it's incapability to multi-task.
>As long as CBM keeps coming out with improvements on there OS, it would be
>a great OS for a computer with it's power.   As far as the Machintosh is 
>concerned... well...  we won't get into that.
>

You'll be surprise that OS/2 is predicted to be more popular in corporation than
Unix.  OS/2 is a single standard.  Unix is presently still struggling to
standardize on its graphics interface.  Microsoft is also planning to make OS/2
portable, so it could be implemented on the RISC machines.  I hate the present
version of OS/2, but latter version may be better.

Both Unix and OS/2 requires powerful hardware, people will still be using DOS
for many years to come.  I imagine that it will fall away, but not any time
soon.  Many sort of multi-tasking add-on helps keep DOS alive, but they can only
go so far.

In any case, it's impossible to predict which operating system will become
dominate in the future.  OS/2 or Unix, who knows.  There are too many variables.
It depends on whether Microsoft can deliver its OS/2 on time, and whether AT&T
and OSF will agree on a graphics standard.  I personally prefer Unix over OS/2.