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- Path: sparky!uunet!mcsun!sunic!dkuug!diku!gogol
- From: gogol@diku.dk (Peter Skov Knudsen)
- Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
- Subject: Re: Is OS/2 a dead end?
- Keywords: So quoth Bill Gates
- Message-ID: <1993Jan22.164203.29927@odin.diku.dk>
- Date: 22 Jan 93 16:42:03 GMT
- References: <1993Jan20.163847.26969@cbfsb.cb.att.com> <72756435914985@flame.ra.anl.gov>
- Sender: gogol@rimfaxe.diku.dk
- Organization: Department of Computer Science, U of Copenhagen
- Lines: 42
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- sparapan@flame.ra.anl.gov (RA Sparapani RA/208/xxx gwing) writes:
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-
- >This is pretty funny coming from the same guy who said that
- >OS/2 was the wave of the future(or something like that).
-
- >Rodney
-
- >Argonne National Laboratory
- >from the people who brought you the Manhattan Project
- >"Arrogance is bliss." Rodney Sparapani
-
- Maybe it's this quote you ar thinking about, which is from mr. Gates' foreword
- to some good-for-nothing book about OS/2 1.0:
- OS/2 is the most important operating system, and maybe the most important
- program ever written (or something like that).
- Well, I must admit that I dont quite understand mr. Gates, but as I can see
- it there are three possibilities:
-
- I) He is just a sprat, that nobody should pay any attention to.
-
- II) He has some terrible plans for computer industry; he thinks of OS/2 1.0
- as the most important OS ever written, but thinks of OS/2 2.0 as a dead end.
- Watch out, given to much influence in computer industry this guy might be
- very dangerous.
-
- III) He is the person making the most reliable predictions about the future in
- computer industry. Reliable in the sense, that he always predicts the
- totally opposite of what things turn out to be. Just have a look at some of
- his insightfull predictions:
- - OS/2 is the most important OS... (see above. said about OS/2 1.0)
- - By MS-DOS version 5 (or was it 6) MS-DOS and UNIX will be the same.
- - (I'm not at all sure about the wording of this, but I remember mr.
- Gates predicting that BASIC would become one of the most important
- programming languages)
- - OS/2 will never sell more than a few hundred thousand copies.
- - OS/2 is a dead end (said at a time where OS/2 had sold about
- 2 million copies)
-
-
- Peter SKov Knudsen, gogol@diku.dk
- Computer science student, University of Copenhagen
-