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- Path: sparky!uunet!grebyn!daily!richk
- From: richk@grebyn.com (Richard Krehbiel)
- Subject: Re: Win NT support in OS/2
- Message-ID: <1992Aug13.221359.8042@grebyn.com>
- Organization: Grebyn Timesharing
- References: <1992Aug12.171206.305@murdoch.acc.Virginia.EDU> <1992Aug12.224740.2776@cs.brown.edu>
- Date: Thu, 13 Aug 1992 22:13:59 GMT
- Lines: 35
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- In article <1992Aug12.224740.2776@cs.brown.edu> wcn@cs.brown.edu (Wen-Chun Ni) writes:
- >In article <1992Aug12.171206.305@murdoch.acc.Virginia.EDU> dtl8v@csissun12.ee.Virginia.EDU (Douglass Thornton Lamb) writes:
- >>current licensing agreement. So can we expect Windows NT
- >>support in OS/2 3.0, when it becomes available next year?
- >
- >*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.
-
- The most important thing to us customers is for OS/2 to support
- applications. That's why the DOS and Windows 3.0 emulations are
- there; that's why an upgrade for 3.1 applications is being done.
-
- If MS' efforts succeed and there is a flood of 32 bit NT applications,
- but only a trickle of OS/2 2.0 32-bit applications, then I can
- envision a time when IBM adds NT support to OS/2 2.0. I think it
- would be a good thing for customers. But I don't think it'll be soon,
- and I don't think it's a goal of IBM's right now.
-
- If you want 32 bit applications, you have to wait. You have to wait
- for the OS/2 applications, or for NT applications. NT applications
- certainly won't ship until after the OS is delivered (my crystal ball
- says 2nd or 3rd quarter '93). OS/2 native applications should be
- coming around in the next few months.
-
- Heck, it might just be NT that adds an OS/2 32-bit API server, to run
- OS/2 applications...
- --
- Richard Krehbiel richk@grebyn.com
- OS/2 2.0 will do for me until AmigaDOS for the 386 comes along...
-