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- From: greve@rs1.thch.uni-bonn.de (Thomas Greve)
- Subject: Re: Some News from Corporate Computing
- Message-ID: <1992Dec13.192256.1637@olymp.informatik.uni-bonn.de>
- Keywords: A Ziff-Davis Publication
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- Organization: University of Bonn, phys. Chemistry
- References: <1992Dec9.195101.28391@cbfsb.cb.att.com>
- Date: Sun, 13 Dec 1992 19:22:56 GMT
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- In article <1992Dec9.195101.28391@cbfsb.cb.att.com> feg@cbnewsb.cb.att.com (forrest.e.gehrke) writes:
- >Here are some excerpts of a piece by Robert Ziff which he
- >entitles "The Power of Standards" in the Dec. '91 issue:
- >........................
- [article deleted]
- >
- >How about that? He has established a moving target standard and
- >he doesn't even care if it is any good.
- Well yes. And he has written this *before* OS/2 was generally
- available. And he didn't even mention how Windoze *became* a standard:
- Micro$oft a sort of multitasker for DOS plus GUI. And people bought it
- because they saw, that this was better than DOS alone (and it could
- not be worse than DOS alone as you can always leave Winoze... -- and
- there is nothing worse than DOS alone... ;-)
-
- So *maybe* OS/2 becomes the standard and future versions of Windoze
- will be a flop, as they are not OS/2 compatible (and Micro$oft doesn't
- own the source code of the then-current OS/2 version ;-)...
-
- >Are things this bad in
- >the PC media? Have they bought NT hook, line and sinker and
- >don't tell them about anything better? Microsoft will have an
- >easy time of it if this is any indication of the mindset.
- Don't expect a secretary to judge an OS for it's technical qualities
- -- and her chief might even make *her* responsible for the oh so often
- crashes... :-(
-
- --
- - Thomas
-
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