NetNews Usenet Archive 1992 #16/NN_1992_16.iso/spool/comp/os/os2/advocacy/3346

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From: [e-mail] (Casey Barton)
Subject: Re: New version of DOS coming out?  (NOOO!!  Anything but *that*!)
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Date: Wed, 29 Jul 1992 01:13:28 GMT
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Daryl Biberdorf writes:
> From the "Late News" section of PC Week, dated July 27, 1992, p.142:
>   Microsoft Readies New Version of DOS
>        Microsoft plans to begin beta testing a new version of DOS in August,
>   sources said last week.  The version, planned for final delivery in the
>   first half of 1993, will include new and enhanced utilities, not
>   all of which will be in the first beta, they said.

    I think that this is good news for OS/2. By the second half of '93, the
average machine will likely be a 386/33 or greater - one easily capable of running
OS/2. By planning a DOS version to be released at this time, it indicates that
NT will _not_ be aimed at this class of machine.
    As I see it, this is the one factor on which OS/2's success hangs. MS's
"squeeze play" depends on NT being able to run on a "low" enough machine. If it's
relegated to 486/33+ machines, there will be a large enough gap between the kind
of machine necessary for NT, and the type of machine whose power is obviously
wasted on DOS. OS/2 can fill that gap, and work on supplying an upgrade path
from there.
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