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- Path: sparky!uunet!comp.vuw.ac.nz!actrix!Steve.Withers
- From: Steve.Withers@bbs.actrix.gen.nz
- Subject: OS/2 must ship with systems WAS: Is OS/2 a dead end?
- Organization: Actrix Information Exchange
- Date: Sat, 23 Jan 1993 12:22:18 GMT
- Message-ID: <1993Jan23.122218.13244@actrix.gen.nz>
- Keywords: So quoth Bill Gates
- References: <1993Jan20.163847.26969@cbfsb.cb.att.com> <enk2.60.727548526@po.cwru.edu> <1993Jan20.170840.4662@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu>
- Sender: Steve.Withers@actrix.gen.nz (Steve Withers)
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- In article <1993Jan20.170840.4662@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu> jebright@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu (James R Ebright) writes:
- > In article <enk2.60.727548526@po.cwru.edu> enk2@po.cwru.edu (Erik Kovach) writes:
- > >In article <1993Jan20.163847.26969@cbfsb.cb.att.com> feg@cbnewsb.cb.att.com (forrest.e.gehrke) writes:
- > >>So, are we all working with a dead end? Are we just
- > >>whistling while passing the graveyard before
- > >>Microsoft unloads NT around May of this year?
- > >
- > >I think that OS/2 will either explode in popularity, or, which is more
- > >likely, have a somewhat small but dedicated following comperable to the
- > >Amiga users...they will be there and have software and generally have an
- > >impressive operating system, but will lack mainstream support. Who knows...
- > >from what I hear 'bout NT I am not that impressed with it as I am with OS/2.
- >
- > The history of the computer market shows leaders don't always hold the lead.
- > NT will launch and a lot of folks will talk about it. Then things will
- > begin to sort out...
- >
- > If OS/2 keeps improving, its usage will spread. Right now, it's mostly
- > by word of mouth :-() OS/2 needs some end-user marketing. Nobody
- > who isn't a computer jock has ever heard of it...(Sounds like UNIX ten
- > years ago). "4 out of 5 computer jocks prefer OS/2!" is not as good as
- > "4 out 5 PC users prefer OS/2!".
-
- At risk of starting the FTC thing again.......i just read through most of the
- ads in the December Computer Shopper (mine comes by boat...OK?).
-
- "* includes MSDOS5 and Windows 3.1!"
-
- got pretty boring by the 300th ad. A couple mentioned other OS's being
- available...usually OS/2 was first mentioned as an alternative.
-
- But why virtually NO vendors will offer OS/2 as an option has me wondering.
- People who use OS/2 almost have to go out and *find* it. I don't blame IBM for
- this completely. The MS lock on the mail-order PC market *is* a virtual
- monopoly. No one else gets a look in.
-
- How can OS/2 get vendors to ship it with systems? I don't know what the answer
- is: make it $10 a copy to OEMs like MS has done with their software?
-
- Steve
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