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- Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.advocacy
- Path: sparky!uunet!grebyn!daily!mfraioli
- From: mfraioli@grebyn.com (Marc Fraioli)
- Subject: Re: Information Week: OS/2, one of 1992's Top Products
- Message-ID: <1992Dec24.212639.9370@grebyn.com>
- Organization: Grebyn Timesharing
- References: <pathak-231292164232@virtual.mitre.org>
- Date: Thu, 24 Dec 1992 21:26:39 GMT
- Lines: 31
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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
- >-- 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
- >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
- >model will likely become a standard in corporate computing where such
- >advances in flexibility and mission-critical platfroms are imperative for
- >users.
- >
- While I agree with the general sentiment of this article, that OS/2 is a
- "GOOD THING", it does reveal the massive ignorance of the public at
- large, and even those who are paid to follow and report on the computer
- industry. What could being 32-bit possibly have to do with reducing
- system crashes?
-
- --
- Marc Fraioli
- mfraioli@grebyn.com (So I'm a minimalist...)
-