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- From: jwiers01@uther.calvin.edu (James Wiersma)
- Subject: Re: Is OS/2 a dead end?
- Message-ID: <jwiers01.727594942@uther>
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- Organization: Calvin College
- References: <1993Jan20.163847.26969@cbfsb.cb.att.com> <1jk2tbINNa5p@usenet.INS.CWRU.Edu>
- Date: Thu, 21 Jan 1993 05:42:22 GMT
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- dab6@po.CWRU.Edu (Douglas A. Bell) writes:
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- >In a previous article, feg@cbnewsb.cb.att.com (forrest.e.gehrke) says:
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- >>PC Week for January 18th has an interview with Bill Gates.
- >>I quote the relevant item:
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- >>PC Week: Your feeling is that OS/2 is a dead-end platform?
- >>
- >>Gates: It's certainly a dead end. That's indisputable.
- >>Nobody would dispute that it's a dead end.
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- >I think Bill Gates has finally gone off his rocker and started to
- >believe the crap that his marketing department spews out. There is
- >something to be said for a positive out look, but it is another thing
- >to deny reality.
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- >Follow up to comp.os.os2.advocacy
- >--
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- I don't think Bill Gates has actually looked at OS/2. If he did,
- he might get ideas for a Real operating system!
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- jdw
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