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From: wallwey@boulder.Colorado.EDU (WALLWEY DEAN WILLIAM)
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Subject: Re: Brain-dead 286 - summary
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Date: 12 Mar 90 23:21:10 GMT
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In article <25F9E2B6.20389@maccs.dcss.mcmaster.ca> cs4g6ag@maccs.dcss.mcmaster.ca (Stephen M. Dunn) writes:
>   In the same BYTE issue (March 1990) you mentioned, there is a short
>article on DOS, Unix and OS/2 discussing such topics as why OS/2 hasn't
>had the impact that it seemed it might have two years ago.  They mention
>such factors as increasing RAM prices (and we all know one feature of OS/2
>is the ability to utilize, and the requirement for, more memory), a
>somewhat incompatible DOS Compatibility Box, and the delay in the release
>of the Presentation Manager.
>-- 
>Stephen M. Dunn                               cs4g6ag@maccs.dcss.mcmaster.ca
>          <std_disclaimer.h> = "\nI'm only an undergraduate!!!\n";
>****************************************************************************
>    "So sorry, I never meant to break your heart ... but you broke mine."

Actually most of those reasons, have changed, or will very soon!  Memory
prices have droped to "low levels" again.  Vers 2.0 will have a much
more compatable "DOS Compatibility Box" that is able to actually
multitask DOS applications as well. (This is because Version 2.0 will
use the Virtual Machine mode of the 386 and hence will require a 386
for this and other reasons!!!) And Finally the new ver 1.2 Presentation
Manager is even better looking than UNIX GUIs (like Motif!) not to
mention much faster on an equivalent machine!)

Another thing to keep in mind, most of the big players are spending 
considerable time, money, effort, and much of their R&D on OS/2, like
MicroSoft, Lotus,  AutoCad, WordPerfect corp. and others.  Most of them
have announced products that make their DOS counterparts sound like they
are from the Dark Ages!

	Dean Wallwey