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- From: rsrodger@wam.umd.edu (Yamanari)
- Subject: Re: Information Week: OS/2, one of 1992's Top Products
- Message-ID: <1992Dec23.232638.16561@wam.umd.edu>
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- References: <pathak-231292164232@virtual.mitre.org>
- Date: Wed, 23 Dec 1992 23:26:38 GMT
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- In article <pathak-231292164232@virtual.mitre.org> pathak@mitre.org (Heeren Pathak) writes:
- >From Dec. 21 of information week [copied without permission]
- >Article titled: 1992's Top Products and Services
- >The 10 Most Likely To Succeed
- >OS/2 2.0
- >After years of delays and feuds with co-developer Microsoft Corp., IBM
- >finally shipped its 32-bit operating system. It was well worth the wait.
- >OS/2 2.0 is both revolutionary -- as the first 32-bit, Intel-based system
- ^^^^^ ^^^^^ ^^^^^^ ^^^^^^^^^^^ ^^^^^^
- Wrong.
-
-
- >-- and versatile in its ability to run multiplatform applications for DOS,
- >Windows, and OS/2. Processing 32 bits of data at a time improces
- ^^^^^^^^
- >multitasking functions and reduces system crashes compared with Microsoft's
- ^^^^ ^^^ ^^ ^^^ ^^^ ^^^^
- >DOS or Windows. For instance, portable computer users of OS/2 2.0 can send
- ^^^ ^^^^^^^
-
- 1. 32 bits doesn't have jack to do with
- "improving multitasking functions
- 2. Nor does OS/2 crash less than DOS
- 3. Nor does 32 bits have to do with any of it.
-
-
- >a DOS file by modem to their home offices in one window while
- >simultaneously writing a letter in a Windows word processor. The OS/2
-
-
- A windows user can do the same.
-
-
- >model will likely become a standard in corporate computing where such
- >advances in flexibility and mission-critical platfroms are imperative for
- >users.
-
- Frankly, I wouldn't hold this prediction any higher than
- I'd hold the ones you see in the enquirer. They obviously
- don't know what the hell they're talking about. I'm suprised
- they didn't say something like"32 bits improves the capability
- of the user interface"
-
-
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