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- From: curt@vtucs.cc.vt.edu (Curt Tilmes)
- Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.advocacy
- Subject: Re: ftc and ms
- Message-ID: <CURT.92Dec22102347@vtucs.cc.vt.edu>
- Date: 22 Dec 92 15:23:47 GMT
- References: <1992Dec22.114844.23358@noose.ecn.purdue.edu>
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- Organization: Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, VA
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- In-reply-to: helz@ecn.purdue.edu's message of 22 Dec 92 11:48:44 GMT
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- In article <1992Dec22.114844.23358@noose.ecn.purdue.edu> helz@ecn.purdue.edu (Randall A Helzerman) writes:
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- In article <1992Dec21.233102.14676@sjsumcs.sjsu.edu>, rick@sjsumcs.sjsu.edu (Richard Warner) writes:
- |> I am hoping that Sun's new WABI pans out. That will kill NT, severely
- |> cut into Windows, and force MS to try to stop Sun in court. (for
- |> the uninitiated, WABI is an interface that allows any Windows program
- |> to run on any machine [CPU/OS combination] to which WABI has been
- |> ported). You could run Ami Pro 3.0 in an X-term session on your
- |> HP workstation running HP/UX. Take that Billy :-)
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- I can't tell you how happy it makes me that at least ONE company is
- trying to beak Microsoft using programmers and not lawyers. I saw in
- January's computer shopper that this is also persuading Microsoft into
- perhaps porting Word, EXCEL, etc. to Solaris. If IBM used this technique
- they probably could get Microsoft to port those killer aps to OS/2 too.
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- Isn't that what WIN/OS2 is? "An interface that allows any Windows
- program to run on [OS/2]"?
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- Maybe I am missing something.
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- Curt
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