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- From: ewright@convex.com (Edward V. Wright)
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- Subject: Re: First Taligent Won't Run Existing Apps
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- Date: 19 Aug 92 16:15:35 GMT
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- In <1992Aug19.014443.1@vax1.umkc.edu> tmaehl@vax1.umkc.edu writes:
-
- >"Taligent won't be a robust platform on day one," said
- >Guarino, in a session at Apple's first Enterprise Computing
- >Conference held here last week. "A year [after the operating
- >system is shipped], Taligent will provide interoperability
- >with AIX, System 7 and OS/2 applications, and it may be a
- >converged operating environment by the late '90s."
-
- As usual, IBM has it arse-backwards. The ability to run
- System 7 and OS/2 applications is important for users who
- are just migrating to the new operating system, especially
- during the first year or so, when there will be little native
- software available. It will become less important as time
- goes on.
-
-
- >"Delaying compatibility may be a big mistake, analysts said.
-
- For once, the analysts are right. It sounds like IBM is
- in a hurry to release the new OS as soon as possible and
- is willing to sacrifice compatability to do it. I hope
- Apple doesn't make the same mistake. Better to get it
- right the first time around than try to fix it later.
- (Hasn't IBM learned anything from OS/2?)
-
-
- >"It's our belief that the brain trusts in our universities
- >are looking for something beyond Unix," Guarino said.
-
- This seems to be part of the problem right there. He
- confuses universities with developers. This guy seems
- to think that computers are still primarily for university
- "brain trusts" who have nothing better to do with their time
- than write all their own software from scratch. If Taligent
- follows that strategy, it will be about as successful as NeXT.
-
-
- >So what's this say for the future or Taligent?? Will they be
- >doomed if they don't ship Mac-AIX-OS/2 modules before 1996??
- >Thats four years from now...roughly three after NT ships...
-
- Assuming Windows NT ships on schedule, which is doubtful.
- Even so, NT will only bring Windows up to the level of a
- bad System 7 clone. Since a Taligent application on a PowerPC
- may run ten times faster than a Windows NT app running on
- Intel hardware, there's not really much comparison.
-