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Article #8694Re: 640K limit
From: Wm E Davidsen Jr
Date: Tue, 16 Jan 1990 15:03
Date: Tue, 16 Jan 1990 15:03
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In article <28808@amdcad.AMD.COM> phil@pepsi.AMD.COM (Phil Ngai) writes:
| The problem is all the lazy software houses who haven't bothered to move
| to OS/2 and take advantage of the 16 meg protected mode even though the
| 286 can handle it just fine.
Wait a minute. Why would any company trying to make a profit go to
OS/2? There are so few users that they would be lucky to cover the cost
of a new version of the compiler, much less cover their labor,
packaging, stocking, and labor costs. And lucky to get enough ongoing
income to cover the maintenence.
This is not a case of lazy, just "no market." Someone told me that
they sold more copies of their educational program for CP/M than OS/2!
That's not a market. If this lady wasn't motivated by a desire to make
social changes she would not have bothered.
--
bill davidsen (davidsen@crdos1.crd.GE.COM -or- uunet!crdgw1!crdos1!davidsen)
"Stupidity, like virtue, is its own reward" -me
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!clyde.concordia.ca!uunet!crdgw1!crdos1!davidsen From: davidsen@crdos1.crd.ge.COM (Wm E Davidsen Jr) Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc Subject: Re: 640K limit Message-ID: <2021@crdos1.crd.ge.COM> Date: 16 Jan 90 15:03:46 GMT References: <4668.25aed7f2@uwovax.uwo.ca> <1468@blackbird.afit.af.mil> <28808@amdcad.AMD.COM> Reply-To: davidsen@crdos1.crd.ge.com (bill davidsen) Organization: GE Corp R&D Center, Schenectady NY Lines: 19