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  1. Path: sparky!uunet!stanford.edu!bcm!lib!oac.hsc.uth.tmc.edu!jmaynard
  2. From: jmaynard@oac.hsc.uth.tmc.edu (Jay Maynard)
  3. Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
  4. Subject: Re: Win NT support in OS/2
  5. Message-ID: <7154@lib.tmc.edu>
  6. Date: 20 Aug 1992 14:06:33 GMT
  7. References: <1992Aug12.171206.305@murdoch.acc.Virginia.EDU> <1992Aug12.224740.2776@cs.brown.edu> <gnash.714266561@ee.uts.EDU.AU>
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  9. Organization: UT Health Science Center Houston
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  13. In article <gnash.714266561@ee.uts.EDU.AU> gnash@ee.uts.edu.au (Greg Nash) writes:
  14. >It's more like trying to run X clients and servers on top of DOS, with
  15. >full multi-tasking. I am aware Desqview does something LIKE that, but
  16. >why isn't everyone using it?
  17.  
  18. Because Quarterdeck took a year too long to get DESQview/X out. They appear,
  19. at least from where I sit, to have missed their window of opportunity (no pun
  20. intended). DV/X is a killer system, but OS/2 is even better.
  21. -- 
  22. Jay Maynard, EMT-P, K5ZC, PP-ASEL | Never ascribe to malice that which can
  23. jmaynard@oac.hsc.uth.tmc.edu      | adequately be explained by stupidity.
  24.   "Anything that an F-4 can outturn is not maneuverable." -- Mary Shafer
  25.