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- From: gnash@ee.uts.edu.au (Greg Nash)
- Subject: Re: Win NT support in OS/2
- Organization: University of Technology, Sydney, Australia
- Date: Wed, 19 Aug 1992 23:22:41 GMT
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- >> 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...)
- Current comment in .advocacy suggests that NT will be a rather different
- kind of beast to OS2, and NT won't be competing for the desktop anyway.
- It's more like trying to run X clients and servers on top of DOS, with
- full multi-tasking. I am aware Desqview does something LIKE that, but
- why isn't everyone using it?
-
- Win NT doesn't bother me at the moment since its purpose and target market
- has very little to do with my needs.
-
- -- Greg Nash
- (gnash@ee.uts.edu.au)
-