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- Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
- Path: sparky!uunet!brunix!brunix!wcn
- From: wcn@cs.brown.edu (Wen-Chun Ni)
- Subject: Re: Win NT support in OS/2
- Message-ID: <1992Aug12.224740.2776@cs.brown.edu>
- Sender: news@cs.brown.edu
- Organization: Brown University Department of Computer Science
- References: <1992Aug12.171206.305@murdoch.acc.Virginia.EDU>
- Date: Wed, 12 Aug 1992 22:47:40 GMT
- Lines: 41
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- In article <1992Aug12.171206.305@murdoch.acc.Virginia.EDU> dtl8v@csissun12.ee.Virginia.EDU (Douglass Thornton Lamb) writes:
- >
- >
- > I've read that Microsoft and IBM will not be renewing their
- >code cross-licensing agreement when it expires next year, but
- >IBM will continue ad perpetuum to have rights to the code for
- >Windows 3.0, 3.1, and NT, because they are covered by the
- >current licensing agreement. So can we expect Windows NT
- >support in OS/2 3.0, when it becomes available next year?
- >Obviously, it will require a 486 instead of a 386 and will
- >probably have a major upgrade price tag attached to it,
- >but you have to look ahead, right? Microsoft has already
- >begun work on the Windows 4.0 software to replace Windows NT.
- >The pace of change in this market is astounding!
- > (All this is, of course, moot if I don't get my Win 3.1
- > support on the September CSD...)
-
- *FLAME ON*
-
- This is the most idiotic article I've ever seen on the net. Why should
- IBM support Windows NT, which is supposed to be OS/2's opponent? We've
- gotten enough of those bullshit expressed by those who are supposed
- to have brains. The support of Windows 3.0/DOS is used to ease the
- pain of *migrating* the users into the OS/2 2.0 kingdom. If you like
- Windows NT, go get the CD ROM and leave us alone.
-
- If I were the person in charge of OS/2, my first goal is to make
- OS/2 2.0 slim enough, rather than bloat it by adding the other
- nonsense like Windows x.y or DOG 6.0.
-
- *FLAME OFF*
-
-
- On the other hand, *if* OS/2 3.0 is to be designed as a microkernel-based
- system, I'd like to see a pure 32-bit OS/2 on top of a Mach kernel. But,
- no more *Windows* please, I am getting disgusted whenever I open the
- windows of my apartment.
-
-
-
- Wen-Chun Ni
-