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- From: shurr@cbnews.cb.att.com (larry.a.shurr)
- Subject: Re: OS/2 2.1? (Why it may cost) READ THIS!!
- Organization: AT&T Bell Laboratories, Columbus, OH
- Date: Wed, 30 Dec 1992 04:34:56 GMT
- Message-ID: <1992Dec30.043456.23786@cbnews.cb.att.com>
- References: <1992Dec14.175627.4452@unixland.natick.ma.us> <OLAVT.92Dec15012734@ulrik.uio.no> <92363.001401I18BC@CUNYVM.BITNET>
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- In article <92363.001401I18BC@CUNYVM.BITNET> CUNY/Spartacus <I18BC@CUNYVM.BITNET> writes:
- }In article <OLAVT.92Dec15012734@ulrik.uio.no>, olavt@ulrik.uio.no (Olav Torvund)
- }says:
- }>And I do not think that many users are really waiting for NT. They are
- }>curious, but that does not mean that they will buy it. And for us OS/2
- }>users, OS/2 is definitly not an in-between OS on our way to NT.
-
- Oh, I'm waiting for NT, alright, but I'm not sitting on my ass waiting
- for it.
-
- }Hm, I don't think so either. Iately I've noticed a change in
- }attitude between some of the computer people I come in contact
- }with everyday. [They pronounced OS/2 the loser before the race
- }has even started (my paraphrase), but now they're reconsidering].
-
- }Hmm, actually its not over yet. IBM, please don't let us down!
-
- Nope! It hasn't even started yet. I'm sure that Microsoft would
- like for everyone to believe they've won the race without having
- to put sneakers to the cinders, but I say hold off 'till the race
- is actually run. In fact, to stretch an analogy to the breaking
- point, may there be many heats and many rematches.
-
- I've been assured by the Digital guys that I deal with here that NT
- will bury OS/2. Surprise! Surprise! Digital's committed to NT on
- their Alpha systems. I don't expect them to promote something they
- don't sell -- they're not pushing Power RISC, either! Besides,
- Dave Cutler, of VMS and RSX legend is running the project. As an
- old RSX hack (MCR, PIP, TECO, Yank-Yank-Altmode-Altmode, see?) and
- VMS retread before my conversion to Unix, that bodes well for NT by
- my lights, but it's no automatic sale. Let's just wait and see.
- Meanwhile enjoy the fireworks!
-
- }------------------------------+ "Que viva el OS/2!" __________| |__________
-
- Si! Claro!
-
- Larry
- --
- Larry A. Shurr (las@cbnmva.att.com) speaking only for myself.
- Norman, listen carefully. I am lying. Are you sure your circuits are
- registering? Your ears are green. Logic is a little bird singing in a
- meadow. Logic is a wreath of pretty flowers which smell bad! - Mr. Spock
-