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  2. From: dic5340@hertz.njit.edu (David Charlap)
  3. Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
  4. Subject: Re: is os/2 a dead end?
  5. Message-ID: <1993Jan26.145346.4309@njitgw.njit.edu>
  6. Date: 26 Jan 93 14:53:46 GMT
  7. References: <1993Jan23.4881.39317@dosgate>
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  13.  
  14. In article <1993Jan23.4881.39317@dosgate> "bill dehaan" <bill.dehaan@canrem.com> writes:
  15. >In message <72757101915772@flame.ra.anl.gov>, sparapan@flame.ra.anl.gov
  16. >(RA Sparapani RA/208/xxx gwing) writes:
  17. >
  18. >>I think that IBM intended all along for OS/2 to be a professional
  19. >>and corporate operating system, just like CP/M was fifteen years ago.
  20. >
  21. >Oh, that's encouraging ;-) Look where CP/M is today...
  22.  
  23. CP/M was THE operating system for Z-80 based machines.  If Digital
  24. Research wasn't out at a golf game when IBM came looking for an OS
  25. (Microsoft and DOS was a second choice), we'd all be using CP/M-86
  26. today.  CP/M was killed by IBM's lack of support, not from
  27. technicalities or user opinion.
  28.  
  29. And 7 years of being the only OS around is nothing to sneeze at.  If
  30. OS/2 remains for 7 years, it'll be impressive.  The only reason DOS
  31. remained that long was that there was no competition.
  32. -- 
  33.   |)  David Charlap          | .signature confiscated by FBI due to
  34.  /|_  dic5340@hertz.njit.edu | an ongoing investigation into the
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  36.  ~|~
  37.