Re: All this OS/2 is dead talk.

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From: B. Vermo
Date: Tue, 25 Mar 1997 00:00

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In article <5h35l6$m49@client3.news.psi.net>,
os2@mistik.express.net (Mustafa Soysal MS57) wrote:
|In article <CZGNzsbnbFDf089yn@ibm.net>, James Knott <jamesk@ibm.net> wrote:
 ...
|>whenever you use a money machine, you are probably using OS/2.  However, the
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|That would be 1.3, not 2.x or 3.x.  1.3 is MicrosoftWare.
|
No, 1.3 is a total cleanup with rewritten kernel. MS persuaded IBM to abandon
their conservative design and project philosophy when they worked together on
1.1. The result was that there was a lot to clean up and rewrite for the much
more stable 1.2. In that process many MS egos were hurt. When 1.3 was 
developed, MS had already abandoned OS/2 for all practical puropses.

Most large IBM customers seem to use OS/2 Warp for downsizing mainframe
operations. I have seen it as standard desktop OS in that role in 
companies like Shell and Daimler Benz, but have not visited any US
companies for many years now so I do not know what they do there.

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From: bv@bigblue.no (B. Vermo)
Subject: Re: All this OS/2 is dead talk.
Date: 1997/03/25
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