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- From: olavt@ulrik.uio.no (Olav Torvund)
- Subject: Re: OS/2 2.1? (Why it may cost) READ THIS!!
- In-Reply-To: bill@unixland.natick.ma.us's message of Mon, 14 Dec 1992 17:56:27 GMT
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- Date: Tue, 15 Dec 1992 00:27:34 GMT
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- In article <1992Dec14.175627.4452@unixland.natick.ma.us> bill@unixland.natick.ma.us (Bill Heiser) writes:
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- olavt@ulrik.uio.no (Olav Torvund) writes:
- >future make Windows support an option. Past 1993 I will probably not
- >need Windows support anymore, so why pay MS for it? Making Win support
- >an option from let us say OS/2 2.2 or 3.0 can also boost the
- >development of OS/2 applications, assuming that OS/2 will have a well
- >established critical user base by then.
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- Do you really think this will be the case? I wonder if most people
- will either stick with DOS, or DOS+Win3.1, until WinNT comes out?
- Jumping to OS/2 in between, while an interesting diversion for
- us techie types, may not be interesting to the average user.
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- I think that OS/2 2.0 already have a critical mass of users - 2 mill
- sold the first 8 months is not that bad. (And now it even starts to
- get good press!). ANyway, if OS/2 does not have a well established
- user base and a well established base of applications by the end of
- 1993, then it will have failed anyway.
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- And I do not think that many users are really waiting for NT. They are
- curious, but that does not mean that they will buy it. And for us OS/2
- users, OS/2 is definitly not an in-between OS on our way to NT.
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- Olav Torvund
- University of Oslo
- Norway
- Olavt@jus.uio.no
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