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- From: tcscs!zeta@src.honeywell.com (Gregory Youngblood)
- Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
- Subject: Re: OS/2 must ship with systems
- Message-ID: <0uuyXB3w165w@tcscs.UUCP>
- Date: Mon, 25 Jan 93 23:12:20 CST
- References: <APOULSEN.93Jan24150249@vongole.mit.edu>
- Reply-To: zeta%tcscs@src.honeywell.com
- Organization: TCS Consulting Services
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- apoulsen@athena.mit.edu (Andy Poulsen) writes:
-
- > >>>>> On 23 Jan 93 12:22:18 GMT, Steve.Withers@bbs.actrix.gen.nz said:
- >
- > >At risk of starting the FTC thing again.......i just read through most of th
- > >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 f
- > >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 answ
- > >is: make it $10 a copy to OEMs like MS has done with their software?
- >
- > i think this is a great idea; however, i think that if it comes with
- > os/2 it should also come with a boot manager or dual boot option, since
- > there are a few pieces of software (most notably CAD stuff -- i use
- > personal designer by computervision) that won't run under os/2 (or
- > windows, for that matter) because their dos extender doesn't support
- > dpmi memory (i've heard it's just a command-line option on the compiler,
- > but couldn't get anyone at the company who knew anything about the
- > programmer's side of things...). so i still have to boot dos if i want
- > to use that package. as (if ?) support for os2 grows, then i could run
- > it under os2. for now, however, i'm stuck booting dos.
- >
- > the bottom line is that although i think shipping systems with os2 is a
- > great idea, there will be people who will need the dos option. (also,
- > perhaps people are still afraid of a big new thing like os2 and would be
- > afraid to have it as their only option...)
-
- The next step is to have IBM PS/2 and PS/1 systems that are able to ship
- with OS/2 on it ready to go instead of DOS/Windows.
-
- Greg
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