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- From: rcook@sneezy.helios.nd.edu (robert cook)
- Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
- Subject: Re: Ziff coverage of Vaporware
- Message-ID: <1992Jul21.061858.3637@news.nd.edu>
- Date: 21 Jul 92 06:18:58 GMT
- References: <13ehjnINN6iu@agate.berkeley.edu> <1992Jul9.142255.11168@relay.nswc.navy.mil> <1992Jul14.005241.30@ccsvax.sfasu.edu>
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- Reply-To: Cook.14@nd.edu (R. Kelley Cook)
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- Robert Kelley Cook << Cook.14@nd.edu >>
- Univ. of Notre Dame The future for Intel computers arrived March 31!
- Physics Dept. Long Live the new OS/2! Time to close the Windows!
- In article <1992Jul14.005241.30@ccsvax.sfasu.edu>, z_kupkams@ccsvax.sfasu.edu writes:
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- |> Well OS/2 is Fantastic, and NT is coming to BETA, the one factor we should
- |> consider is not which is the BETTER OS? but which will be more widely accepted?
- |> Microsoft claims Existing Windows APPS, can be recompiled, and Linked with the
- |> NT tools and what do you get? Instant 32-Bit code, Now to be realistic If only
- |> 25% of the existing source code was written to Windows API specs, that should
- |> not be a big problem ( Except for us OS/2 fans ). Windows already has a good
- |> following, and a large number of apps available, if only 25% ( an arbitrary
- |> number ) can be recompiled and shrink wrapped, It may prove to be problematic
- |> for OS/2 fans.
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- Unfortunately, MS claiming that all you need to do to use the 32-bit
- API is recompile is a fallacy. Charles Petzold (ex OS/2 PC-Mag guru :( )
- stated in an pre-review of NT in the PC-Mag issue "reviewing" Win 3.1 and
- OS/2 (the one with the top five reasons to buy OS/2: 1. You already
- got suckered by IBM into buying 1.x or something asinine like that)--that
- it was much more difficult to port Win 16 apps to Win 32 apps than
- to port 16 bit PM apps to their 32 bit cousins.
-