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- From: dbarker@spang.Camosun.BC.CA (Deryk Barker)
- Subject: Re: Information Week: OS/2, one of 1992's Top Products
- Message-ID: <1992Dec24.015104.1278@spang.Camosun.BC.CA>
- Organization: Camosun College, Victoria B.C, Canada
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- References: <1992Dec23.232638.16561@wam.umd.edu>
- Date: Thu, 24 Dec 1992 01:51:04 GMT
- Lines: 59
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- rsrodger@wam.umd.edu (Yamanari) writes:
- : 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
-
- If they'd changed the "or" to "and" they'd have hit the nail on the
- head...
-
- : 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.
-
- yeah, but only at modem speeds or up to around 4800bps. Any faster and
- Windows starts losing interrupts.
-
- :
- :
- : >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"
-
- I think you'll find most corporate IBM users are tending to OS/2; its
- cohesion with their mainframes is an outstanding plus.
-
- --
- Real: Deryk Barker, Computer Science Dept., Camosun College, Victoria B.C.
- Email: (dbarker@spang.camosun.bc.ca)
- Phone: +1 604 370 4452
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