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- From: xtifr@netcom.com (Chris Waters)
- Subject: Re: Information Week: OS/2, one of 1992's Top Products
- Message-ID: <1992Dec24.075536.16331@netcom.com>
- Organization: Netcom - Online Communication Services (408 241-9760 guest)
- References: <pathak-231292164232@virtual.mitre.org>
- Date: Thu, 24 Dec 1992 07:55:36 GMT
- Lines: 59
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- In <pathak-231292164232@virtual.mitre.org> pathak@mitre.org (Heeren Pathak) writes:
-
- >From Dec. 21 of information week [copied without permission]
-
- Yeesh, I like OS/2 a lot, but this article is ridiculous!
-
- >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
- ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
- Hmm, I'll bet that SCO and other 386 UNIX vendors are suprised to hear
- that! Not to mention Quarterdeck, Rational and Phar-Lap! :-)
-
- (Note for those about to reply: I TOLD you not to mention them!) :-)
-
- >Processing 32 bits of data at a time improces
- >multitasking functions and reduces system crashes compared with Microsoft's
- >DOS or Windows.
-
- 32-bits reduces crashes? ROFL! The memory protection in the CPU can be
- used to help reduce crashes, but the datapath size has nothing to do
- with this. For that matter, the only thing that the 32-bitness has to
- do with multitasking is that it allows you to run more and bigger
- processes. I've done robust multitasking on 8-bit machines! DOS and
- Windows crash because they're badly designed pieces of crap! :-)
-
- For instance, portable computer users of OS/2 2.0 can send
- >a DOS file by modem to their home offices in one window while
- >simultaneously writing a letter in a Windows word processor.
-
- Big deal! You can do that *without* OS/2 too, no problem. You can even
- do it without freaking the system if you run Windows under DESQview, so
- that you get real multitasking instead of Windows' maybe-if-the-wind-is-
- right-I'll-switch-to-another-task-ing.
-
- Well, at least this drivel is no worse than the idiotic claims that MS
- makes about their so-called "New" Technology. :-)
-
- And at least it isn't IBM making these claims--so Microsoft's position
- as most baldfaced liars in the computer industry is still secure. :-)
-
- "Information Week", eh? Remind me not to subscribe to this one!
-
- p.s. I already don't subscribe to Byte, PC-Weak, or InfoWierd. Gave up
- on IW in '83, Byte in '85, and PC-Weak in '86. Does anybody but me
- remember when there were computer magazines that contained inforMATION
- instead of nothing but infoMERCIALS??? Hell, if I want that kind of
- spewage, there are at least three free papers here in Silicon Valley,
- which at least admit that they rarely carry anything that isn't a paid
- advertisement. :-)
- --
- Chris Waters | the insane don't | "Imaginary guitar notes [...] exist only
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