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- From: lbv2@ns1.cc.lehigh.edu (m.l. gore)
- Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.advocacy
- Subject: Re: COMDEX Awards
- Message-ID: <1992Nov22.173542.74050@ns1.cc.lehigh.edu>
- Date: 22 Nov 92 17:35:42 GMT
- Organization: Lehigh University
- Lines: 59
-
- In article <1992Nov21.213610.8366@fcom.cc.utah.edu>, brian@jaguar.cs.utah.edu (B
- rian Sturgill) writes:
- >In article <1992Nov20.181435.17645@husc3.harvard.edu> chandoni@husc8.harvard.ed
- u 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.
- >Here's the piece that deals with Windows 3.1 and OS/2 2.0
- >[PC/Computing, December 1992, Page 190]
-
- Wait...OS/2 can't compete (technically) with NT, but WIN can compete with
- OS/2? Please Brian...WIN can't hold OS/2's jock. That's mho, but your
- opinion is faulted.
- When NT is released, then you can in fact compare it to OS/2. Right now,
- all we can compare is WIN and OS/2, and frankly, we all know WIN is
- nothing compared to OS/2 as an OS.
-
- [ quote from article]
- >The truth is, all those arguments are valid. Is either Windows or
- >OS/2 the ultimate operating environment? [No... that's Windows NT! :-)]
-
- Ahh, yes, good to see the old Brian again. My, you stayed away quite a
- while.
- We all know your opinion Brian. If you feel the need to voice it over and
- over again ,be more creative. I would like to try NT, but, he he he, MS
- can't deliver it. Sure, it will come, I have no doubts. But even now, from
- different reports of testers (yourself incl.) and Comdex, it seems that NT
- is Faaaaaaaaaaar from what it is slated to be.
-
- Remember, this is comp.os.os2...., not .windows-NT.
-
- >
- >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.
- >
- --
-
- Lehigh University-AXP
- lbv2@ns1.cc.lehigh.edu
-
- OS/2 2.0...anything else is just a DOS.
-