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- From: parry@yoyo.cc.monash.edu.au (Tom J Parry)
- Subject: Re: IBM OS/2 news at PC92
- Message-ID: <1992Aug20.080952.27476@monu6.cc.monash.edu.au>
- Originator: parry@yoyo.cc.monash.edu.au
- Sender: news@monu6.cc.monash.edu.au (Usenet system)
- Organization: Monash University, Melb., Australia.
- References: <1992Aug20.025022.7668@microsoft.com>
- Date: Thu, 20 Aug 1992 08:09:52 GMT
- Lines: 25
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- Gideon Yuval (gideony@microsoft.com) wrote:
- > In article <1992Aug18.005710.19660@monu6.cc.monash.edu.au> parry@yoyo.cc.monash.edu.au (Tom J Parry) writes:
- > >:-). Anyway, walking past the MS stand, one of the demonstrators opened
- > >a cupboard to get something out of the back of the stand, and what shuld
- > >I see, but a PC running OS/2! I was very amused. I made a comment about
- > >MS running OS/2 and she mumbled something under her breath abou it not
- > >being a problem. I thought it was very funny.
- >
- > Given that LANMAN uses OS/2 as its server OS, what was
- > so funny?
-
- That was almost the reaction I got at the show (without the mention of
- LANMAN).
-
- Given the competition between these two ex-alies, and the pending arrival
- of NT as competition for OS/2 it was amusing to find a machine running
- OS/2 hiding in a cupboard.
-
- Given the collaboration of these two ex-alies in the past on OS/2 it is
- not that surprising.
-
-
- --
- Tom J Parry.
- Your reality is a figment of my imagination.
-