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  1. Xref: sparky comp.os.os2.misc:39827 comp.os.os2.advocacy:10556
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  4. From: walk@mrcnext.cso.uiuc.edu (Todd Walk)
  5. Subject: Re: Future of OS/2 and IBM????????????
  6. References: <1992Dec15.210437.934@gn.ecn.purdue.edu> <1992Dec15.214233.2419@cs.brown.edu>
  7. Message-ID: <BzFoDu.L6y@news.cso.uiuc.edu>
  8. Sender: usenet@news.cso.uiuc.edu (Net Noise owner)
  9. Organization: University of Illinois at Urbana
  10. Date: Fri, 18 Dec 1992 02:32:17 GMT
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  13. wcn@cs.brown.edu (Wen-Chun Ni) writes:
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  15. >In article <1992Dec15.210437.934@gn.ecn.purdue.edu> ashwath@gn.ecn.purdue.edu (Ashwath Ram) writes:
  16. >    <stuff deleted>
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  18. >My understanding is that the mainframe section of IBM is in trouble. The
  19. >to-be-laid-off people and to-be-sold assets are mostly dealing with
  20. >mainframes. Because of this, the roles of workstations and PCs become
  21. >very crucial to IBM's survivability. I see this as a sign of IBM's
  22. >continuous support of OS/2 as well as AIX.
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  25. Not only that, but I heard a rumor that IBM has dropped development
  26. for the next series of core logic for their mainframes.  If this
  27. is true, then they HAVE to commit fully to AIX and OS/2.
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  30.                     Todd Walk
  31.                     walk@mrcnext.cso.uiuc.edu
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