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- From: nap42487@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu (Nishith A. Patel)
- Subject: Re: Is OS/2 a dead end?
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- Date: Thu, 21 Jan 1993 23:50:15 GMT
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- dab6@po.CWRU.Edu (Douglas A. Bell) writes:
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- >In a previous article, bill@west.msi.com (Bill Poitras) says:
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- >>Douglas A. Bell (dab6@po.CWRU.Edu) wrote:
- >>: >Gates: It's certainly a dead end. That's indisputable.
- >>: >Nobody would dispute that it's a dead end.
- >>: 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.
- >>
- >>Oh please. Bill Gates is probably saying this because you wants
- >>everybody else to believe it. I have heard management in MY company say:
- >>"Bill Gates says OS/2 is dead" and they believe it.
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- >Bill Gates is going to lose a lot of credibility over this one.
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- From who? OS/2 computer enthusiasts? I'm sure Gates would agree with me when
- I say, "Ohhh, well."
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- It appears the OS/2 advocates were really hoping OS/2 would become successful,
- and when it didn't, they start saying things about how those that put down
- OS/2 will somehow be haunted by what they said when OS/2 rises from the dead
- and makes them look like idiots. Sort of a desparation argument.
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- DON'T WORRY ABOUT IT. If you bought OS/2 hoping this would happen, you certainlytook a long-shot chance. Just think of it as a DOS multitasker.
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- BTW, by successful, I mean mainstream, not 1.5 million users.
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