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Article #16239Re: is os/2 a dead end?
From: David Charlap
Date: Tue, 26 Jan 1993 14:53
Date: Tue, 26 Jan 1993 14:53
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In article <1993Jan23.4881.39317@dosgate> "bill dehaan" <bill.dehaan@canrem.com> writes: >In message <72757101915772@flame.ra.anl.gov>, sparapan@flame.ra.anl.gov >(RA Sparapani RA/208/xxx gwing) writes: > >>I think that IBM intended all along for OS/2 to be a professional >>and corporate operating system, just like CP/M was fifteen years ago. > >Oh, that's encouraging ;-) Look where CP/M is today... CP/M was THE operating system for Z-80 based machines. If Digital Research wasn't out at a golf game when IBM came looking for an OS (Microsoft and DOS was a second choice), we'd all be using CP/M-86 today. CP/M was killed by IBM's lack of support, not from technicalities or user opinion. And 7 years of being the only OS around is nothing to sneeze at. If OS/2 remains for 7 years, it'll be impressive. The only reason DOS remained that long was that there was no competition. -- |) David Charlap | .signature confiscated by FBI due to /|_ dic5340@hertz.njit.edu | an ongoing investigation into the ((|,) | source of these .signature virusses ~|~
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!sparky!uunet!sequent!gaia.ucs.orst.edu!flop.ENGR.ORST.EDU!rutgers!njitgw.njit.edu!hertz.njit.edu!dic5340 From: dic5340@hertz.njit.edu (David Charlap) Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc Subject: Re: is os/2 a dead end? Message-ID: <1993Jan26.145346.4309@njitgw.njit.edu> Date: 26 Jan 93 14:53:46 GMT References: <1993Jan23.4881.39317@dosgate> Sender: news@njit.edu Distribution: comp Organization: New Jersey Institute of Technology, Newark, N.J. Lines: 23 Nntp-Posting-Host: hertz.njit.edu