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- From: mccall@mksol.dseg.ti.com (fred j mccall 575-3539)
- Subject: Re: Windows NT is it out yet? What will happen to OS/2?
- Message-ID: <1992Nov17.181255.23499@mksol.dseg.ti.com>
- Organization: Texas Instruments Inc
- References: <yZZDuB13w165w@tcscs.UUCP>
- Date: Tue, 17 Nov 1992 18:12:55 GMT
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- In <yZZDuB13w165w@tcscs.UUCP> zeta%tcscs@idss.nwa.com (Gregory Youngblood) writes:
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- >A friend of mine (window nut) was just telling me NT is out now, and he
- >can get it for $99 (normall 179). Anyone know anything about this? I've
- >not been following the windows stuff anymore, and I'm curious. Also, what
- >is this Win32 and Win32s.
-
- They're selling Beta. NT won't be out until next year. Your friend
- is wrong. Win32 is the 32-bit API; Win32s is a subset of that
- t(Win32) that will work on 'normal' Windows.
-
- >I know this is an OS2 message area, but I dont get any of the windows groups
- >and I dont plan on it either. If NT is released, any predictions what that
- >will do to OS/2? If mickey warez can get NT working to be just a little bit
- >less problematic than OS/2, os/2 is going to be in trouble.
-
- It (NT) isn't released. What is available is incomplete and no doubt
- buggy (being test code, one expects that). Even if NT were out, it is
- probably too late to 'kill' OS/2. There are just too many copies of
- it out there already.
-
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- in the real world." -- Mary Shafer, NASA Ames Dryden
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