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- From: 925wardell@gw.wmich.edu
- Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.advocacy
- Subject: Re: COMDEX Awards
- Message-ID: <1992Nov21.231336.6516@gw.wmich.edu>
- Date: 21 Nov 92 23:13:35 EST
- References: <93722@rphroy.ph.gmr.com> <1992Nov20.181435.17645@husc3.harvard.edu> <1992Nov21.213610.8366@fcom.cc.utah.edu>
- Organization: Western Michigan University
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- In article <1992Nov21.213610.8366@fcom.cc.utah.edu>, brian@jaguar.cs.utah.edu (Brian Sturgill) writes:
- > In article <1992Nov20.181435.17645@husc3.harvard.edu> chandoni@husc8.harvard.edu writes:
- >>rbotimer@max.ct.gmr.com (R Douglas Botimer) writes:
- >>(from an IBM press release)
- >>> PC/Computing on Sunday named OS/2 2.0 co-winner of the
- >> ---------
- >>> operating system/environment award as part of its annual
- >>> "Most Valuable Products" (MVP) awards ceremony. In
- >>> selecting OS/2 2.0 for this honor, the editors of
- >>> PC/Computing stated, "this is the operating system Windows**
- >>> 3.1 should have been."
- >>
- >>Co-winner??? What product was the other co-winner... the NT
- >>beta? Or did this competition include OS's for other machines
- >>(i.e. Nextstep or System 7)?
- >
- > No, the co-winner was Windows 3.1, OS/2 is not sophisticated enough
- > to compete with Windows NT yet, nor is Windows NT released yet.
- > I read the PC/Computing article, and it was soundly based.
-
- Not "sophisticated" enough? Come now, that's nonsense.
- It is not a released product and that is why it was not mentioned.
- Even if it was thrown out the door right now it would not likely have
- beaten out OS/2 2.0. They would probably have said something along the
- lines of: "A great technological piece of software but without reliable
- DOS support and unremarkable Windows support, NT is clearly for a niche."
- Now when NT is released and perhaps gains more of its future
- features and such, I imagine that we will see NT going for the award.
-
- -Brad
-
-
- >
- > Brian
- > --
- > C. Brian Sturgill I strongly encourage you to mail your copy
- > University of Utah of Ross Perot's: "United We Stand
- > Center for Software Science How we can take back our country",
- > brian@cs.utah.edu; CIS: 70363,1373 to President-elect Clinton.
-