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- From: wiegand@rtsg.mot.com (Robert Wiegand)
- Subject: Re: ftc and ms
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- Organization: Motorola Inc., Cellular Infrastructure Group
- References: <1992Dec20.3155.5785@dosgate> <1992Dec20.202150.818@noose.ecn.purdue.edu> <1992Dec21.233102.14676@sjsumcs.sjsu.edu> <1992Dec22.114844.23358@noose.ecn.purdue.edu>
- Date: Tue, 29 Dec 1992 22:14:43 GMT
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- 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 :-)
-
- >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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- Where have you been. IBM did do this. Windows apps. *do* run under OS/2.
- Microsoft isn't going to port *anything* to OS/2 because Billy is
- pissed of at IBM.
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- Robert Wiegand - Motorola Inc.
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- Disclamer: I didn't do it - I was somewhere else at the time.
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