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- From: mlevis@ringer.cs.utsa.edu (Mike Levis)
- Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
- Subject: Re: The Future of OS/2
- Message-ID: <1992Jul27.042237.8171@ringer.cs.utsa.edu>
- Date: 27 Jul 92 04:22:37 GMT
- References: <LJ6DoB1w164w@netlink.cts.com> <26JUL199218573755@vmsb.is.csupomona.edu>
- Organization: University of Texas at San Antonio
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- In article <26JUL199218573755@vmsb.is.csupomona.edu> cvadrtbc@vmsb.is.csupomona.edu (Srikanth Viswanathan) writes:
- >
- >I believe this is well into the future, IBM doesn't intend on having Windows
- >compatibility for ever, I think it's going to end in September of 1993. That
- ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
- >more than a year away. Even if you have tons of Windows programs, why not
- >try OS/2 and judge for yourself? What have you got to lose? You can always
- >return it if you don't like it? Besides, do you think that NT is going to
- >run Enhanced mode Windows code? Not according to Mark Ryland of MS.
-
- I believe that you misunderstood the MS/IBM contract of source
- code sharing. I think that IBM cannot see *new* MS source code
- for Windows (and other MS source code) after September 1993
- (and vice versa). IBM can have Windows code in it for as long
- as it wants.
-
- However, I agree with the rest of your statement. Windows
- compatibility in OS/2 2.0 is for migration (meaning people
- will not have to throw away most of their Windows apps when
- using OS/2 2.0).
-
- >Srikanth
-
- --
- === Mike Levis mlevis@ringer.cs.utsa.edu ===
- .--. :: Call 1-800-3IBM-OS2 to order OS/2 2.0!! ::
- (OS/2) :: Upgrade $49 from Windows, $99 from DOS. ::
- ~--~ ::: IBM's offer ends July 31, 1992! Hurry! :::
-