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- Subject: Re: Is OS/2 a dead end?
- Message-ID: <1993Jan22.121347.7404@gw.wmich.edu>
- Date: 22 Jan 93 12:13:47 EST
- References: <1993Jan20.191655.15293@msi.com> <1jk2tbINNa5p@usenet.INS.CWRU.Edu> <1jkg58INNj3f@usenet.INS.CWRU.Edu> <C18A7s.3rq@news.cso.uiuc.edu>
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- In article <C18A7s.3rq@news.cso.uiuc.edu>, nap42487@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu (Nishith A. Patel) writes:
- > dab6@po.CWRU.Edu (Douglas A. Bell) writes:
- >
- >
- >>In a previous article, bill@west.msi.com (Bill Poitras) says:
- >
- >>>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.
- >
- >>Bill Gates is going to lose a lot of credibility over this one.
- >
- > From who? OS/2 computer enthusiasts? I'm sure Gates would agree with me when
- > I say, "Ohhh, well."
- >
- > 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.
- >
- > 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.
- >
- > BTW, by successful, I mean mainstream, not 1.5 million users.
- >
- >
- Woha, I don't think anyone thought that OS/2 would become THE
- os in a year. I mean, according to Microsoft, there are only about 4 to
- 5 million windows users so it certainly is not much more mainstream than
- OS/2. I think in a few years, OS/2 or its sucessor is liketly to replace
- DOS as the mainstream. I think Windows will eventually replace DOS
- as the main environment and then they will move to OS/2. I don't think
- NT is going to simply because of its poor backward compatibility.
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- -Brad
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